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Don Young: “The bill must also ensure that tribes can raise tax revenues so that we can manage energy development.”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2012
The bill must also ensure that tribes can raise tax revenues so that we can manage energy development.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Young stresses the need for tribes to have the ability to tax energy development.

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