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On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
It has killed my timber industry and is trying to kill the fishing industry by federally-controlled management of fish, and I would say timber and all other resources, otherwise a socialist program.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Young argues that federal management harms local industries and likens it to socialism.

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