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Lisa Murkowski: The trust responsibility, the obligation that we have to our first peoples, and seems to me that we ought to be able to…

On the recordApril 1, 2014
The trust responsibility, the obligation that we have to our first peoples, and seems to me that we ought to be able to advance this.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski emphasizes the obligation to support tribal needs.

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