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On the recordJuly 18, 2017
The purpose of the ESA is to recover species that are threatened with extinction: the Act clearly lays out the appropriate path to take after a species has recovered.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva emphasizes the Endangered Species Act's goal of recovering threatened species.

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