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Lisa Murkowski: “She decided that using just .07 percent of the refuge as a cherry stem to help save the lives of people who live there…”

On the recordApril 13, 2016
She decided that using just .07 percent of the refuge as a cherry stem to help save the lives of people who live there, while simultaneously expanding the refuge by tens of thousands of acres somehow was not worth it.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Murkowski condemns Secretary Jewell's rejection of the road project for King Cove.

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