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On the recordDecember 11, 2013
The rhetoric coming from people who oppose ESA would lead one to believe that keeping species from going extinct is destroying our economy.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva critiques the opposition to the Endangered Species Act.

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