In Congress and Mike Lawler from New York. This issue of you don't think of. New York as being an extreme heat. Place, but it's getting hotter there because of climate change. It's getting hotter all across America and the globe [due to climate change]. And we need to take this into account in our public policy. We need more resources for liheap, which is the program that helps people that can't afford to have their air conditioning at appropriate temperatures during the summer. (07:30–07:34)
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