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Don Young: the gentleman says 3,000 are going to be bugs. Let us stress that, bugs, things that you squish if they get on you. You…

On the recordMarch 27, 1996
the gentleman says 3,000 are going to be bugs. Let us stress that, bugs, things that you squish if they get on you. You mean to tell me, if they decided that the red tick, the Mississippian tick that is awfully prevalent in the woods, and some places it is not because they are eradicated; if they decided that tick was--by the way, the tick carries diseases--was an endangered species, and I happened to get one of those ticks on my body as I was walking through the woods enjoying this beautiful flora and fauna, and that tick was on my body, I could not destroy it because of endangered species?
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing concerns about the implications of classifying certain pests as endangered species.

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