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Alan Lowenthal: “I want to follow up on this, Mr. Chapoose, that the monument review carried out by Secretary Zinke that was ultimately…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
I want to follow up on this, Mr. Chapoose, that the monument review carried out by Secretary Zinke that was ultimately used to justify President Trump's elimination of Bears Ears National Monument, claimed that a lot of the land included in the original monument is not of scientific, historic, or cultural interest.
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Alan Lowenthal
Democratic · California

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Lowenthal critiques the justification for reducing the Bears Ears National Monument.

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