I ask the gentleman if it is true that the President of the United States when he ran for President said we were going to have full funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, $450 million for Federal, $450 million for state-side, and now we are down at $197 million for both programs?
Norman D. Dicks: “I ask the gentleman if it is true that the President of the United States when he ran for President said we were going…”
Editor's note · Context
Questioning the funding levels of the Land and Water Conservation Fund during a discussion.
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