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On the recordApril 3, 2014
I do not believe that collecting fees to recreate on our Nation's public lands is the silver bullet to solve the maintenance backlog and is the long-term solution to our budget constraints.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva discusses the limitations of fee collection for public lands.

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