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On the recordApril 5, 2000
I note that the picture my friend from California identified--and that is an extraordinary picture of the Brooks Range, as she may not know--is nowhere near the Coastal Plain, the 1002 area about which we are talking. It is probably somewhere between 80 and 100 miles away. That is the wilderness we are committed to support and does not represent at all the Coastal Plain which is the issue before us.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing the distinction between the Brooks Range and the Coastal Plain during a debate.

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