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Don Young: “I bet you are happy about that. And how do I know who else is going to be sitting in that chair? How does a tribe know?”

On the recordOctober 27, 2015
I bet you are happy about that. And how do I know who else is going to be sitting in that chair? How does a tribe know?
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Expressing uncertainty about future leadership and its impact on tribal matters.

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