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Lisa Murkowski: “Our reasons for keeping them out of it are rooted in fear, distrust, and assumptions about their capacity to soundly…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2021
Our reasons for keeping them out of it are rooted in fear, distrust, and assumptions about their capacity to soundly administer the law that all ought to be long since in our past.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski emphasizes the need to overcome distrust towards tribal governments.

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