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Sen. Cruz Questions Sierra Club President Aaron Mair on Climate Change

Published | Video Starts at 08:52

And I would note that Mr. Mayor's written testimony and oral testimony focused in significant part on the Obama administration's new global warming regulations that could cost up to 10 million jobs, imposed massive costs on American consumers. And so he argued that the Data support causing millions of Americans to lose their jobs, including millions of African Americans and Hispanics. And I was pressing on what the data was that he was testifying about. And I would note that that is not only relevant to his testimony, it was almost the entire subject of his testimony. (08:52–09:01)

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Asserts that data supports the claim that millions of Americans, including African Americans and Hispanics, could lose their jobs due to the regulations.

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