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On the recordOctober 24, 2011
This labeled rhetoric and gross mischaracterization has made legitimate discussion of wilderness proposals difficult.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva highlights the challenges in discussing wilderness proposals due to extreme rhetoric.

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