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Lisa Murkowski: “How can the Federal Government be denying these people living in a very remote part of America something that we would…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
How can the Federal Government be denying these people living in a very remote part of America something that we would absolutely take for granted in any other part of America?
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the federal government's denial of basic infrastructure for remote communities.

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