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On the recordApril 16, 2018
It would be good to have a certain level of mandatory funding but, you know, it would have been good to have that for the Land and Water Conservation Fund in 1962.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski reflects on the need for mandatory funding for conservation.

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