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On the recordJuly 27, 2015
What is the feeling among some of our agents, at least how they are feeling especially with the kind of rhetoric that Cliven Bundy is putting out there--not the racist rhetoric but the anti-government, anti-environmental rhetoric that basically I believe puts a lot of our men and women in a very weird and awkward position when trying to enforce what we understand are our grazing laws?
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Rubén Gallego
Democratic · Arizona

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Gallego raises concerns about agents' safety due to Bundy's anti-government rhetoric.

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