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ALEXANDER: Well, it's becoming more urgent, more of a problem. And there's a better understanding of it. I actually think the Green New Deal is a bizarre proposal and so far out that it gives us a chance to step up and say, this is a problem, but that's not the way to do it. I think most of...
CORNISH: Well, just to jump in there, it is a resolution.
ALEXANDER: Yeah.
CORNISH: Right? It's not actually - it's a start of a conversation. It was a non-binding resolution. And some of the things you have in your plan - greener buildings, electric vehicles - are things that that plan references. What makes that one...
ALEXANDER: Yeah.
CORNISH: ...Bizarre and yours somehow more straight ahead?
ALEXANDER: Well, that one focuses on cows, combustion...
CORNISH: Cows are not mentioned in the resolution, Senator...
ALEXANDER: Well - but...
CORNISH: ...In the one that was filed.
ALEXANDER: Well - but the proposal was to deal with agriculture. And methane comes from cow burping.
CORNISH: So I'm looking at the proposal.
ALEXANDER: And that was a big part of the proposal.
CORNISH: And it says working collaboratively with farmers to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, supporting family...
ALEXANDER: Well, they've...
CORNISH: ...Farming. It doesn't...
ALEXANDER: They've...
CORNISH: ...Say anything about attacking cows.
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