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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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