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Brian Schatz: “We have to decide. We're going to be a country here. We're…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Sen. Brian Schatz in conversation with Axios' Nathan Bomey

Published | Video Starts at 05:58

How do you confront sort of that NIMBY attitude there? Look, this is a. We have to decide. This is a national priority. We have to decide. We're going to be a country here. We're not going to be 50 individual sovereigns deciding how we're going to run our electricity grid. And. And I think it's hard, but I think the same problem exists for housing as exists for our electricity transmission and distribution system. (05:58–06:10)

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Asserts the need for a unified national approach to managing the electricity grid.

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