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Don Young: “Oh, 25, 50, 100. My village that I live in has got 550. That is all. To give you an idea, if the gentleman would yield…”

On the recordDecember 21, 2018
Oh, 25, 50, 100. My village that I live in has got 550. That is all. To give you an idea, if the gentleman would yield to me for a second: If you took Alaska, all the land east of the Mississippi River, to the Atlantic Ocean, to the tip of Maine, to the tip of Florida, that is part of Alaska. In that area that I am talking about, Maine to Florida, there are 253 Congressmen and 52 Senators. Think about that. {time} 1130 Think about that. Why I say that, there are no roads, and you are going to punish those people who finally got enough money to buy an older generator by the EPA, an unfunded mandate, and say you are helping them.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska
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Dec 21, 2018

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