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On the recordJune 6, 2017
I certainly prefer that relationship to being a landlord, but I think we recognize that when a Department has authority over 220 million acres in a State like mine...
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski emphasizes the importance of partnership over a landlord-tenant relationship with the Secretary of the Interior.

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