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On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
I have found that it was a highly partisan Act, highly partisan piece of legislation that was passed back in the early 1970s.
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Bruce Westerman
Republican · Arkansas

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Westerman critiques the Endangered Species Act as being politically biased.

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