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On the recordOctober 13, 2011
What we must not do is cut PILT and then use that cut as an excuse to degrade our environmental safeguards on public lands.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Warning against using funding cuts to undermine environmental protections.

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