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On the recordApril 26, 2012
Never mind the public process and sound science that informed the agency; people want to go outside that process and have legislators put their finger on the scale.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva criticizes attempts to bypass established processes for park management.

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