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Raúl Grijalva: The tone and the rhetoric in the written testimony presented to the Committee by some of today's witnesses is…

On the recordMay 8, 2013
The tone and the rhetoric in the written testimony presented to the Committee by some of today's witnesses is inflammatory, to use a word we will hear from shortly, 'specious.'
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva criticizes the inflammatory nature of some testimonies regarding land management.

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