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Jared Huffman: Representative Huffman said this was a choice between big oil or indigenous peoples. It is not, and you are wrong.

On the recordMarch 25, 2019
Representative Huffman said this was a choice between big oil or indigenous peoples. It is not, and you are wrong.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Huffman refutes the notion that the issue is a binary choice between oil and indigenous rights.

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