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David Schweikert: How many of us have heard of a little town called Tombstone? It's popped up in movies, American folklore. Guess what?…

On the recordDecember 5, 2012
How many of us have heard of a little town called Tombstone? It's popped up in movies, American folklore. Guess what? The Forest Service seems hell-bent on ending its existence. This town is older than my State. Its water rights are older than my State. Yet the Forest Service is restricting the town from 87 percent of its water supply because there's Forest Service land around Tombstone. This picture isn't a picture of a bunch of cowboys out having fun. They're not allowed to take a little Bobcat up the mountainside to get the springs to fix their water, so you have to go up by hand up a mountainside to remove the boulders. Is there an adult in the Forest Service who has a lick of sense? ____________________
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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govinfo.gov
Dec 5, 2012

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