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On the recordMarch 20, 2013
the bill would desecrate and destroy an area of religious and sacred significance to the Apache and Yavapai people
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Criticism of H.R. 687 for harming sacred Native American lands.

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