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Jared Huffman: I keep hearing again and again from my colleagues across the aisle, 'We don't want to see species go extinct, but,' and…

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
I keep hearing again and again from my colleagues across the aisle, 'We don't want to see species go extinct, but,' and then begins the reasons why we have to do things to weaken the Endangered Species Act.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman highlights hypocrisy in opposing the Endangered Species Act while claiming to support it.

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