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Jared Huffman: If an emergency room doctor saved 99 percent of the patients that came through the door and put 90 percent of them on a…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
If an emergency room doctor saved 99 percent of the patients that came through the door and put 90 percent of them on a clear and timely road to recovery, as the ESA has done with imperiled species, that doctor would receive universal praise.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman uses a medical analogy to illustrate the ESA's success.

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