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Jared Huffman: “There has been an effort to trivialize public input, to suggest that it is a circus.”

On the recordNovember 28, 2017
There has been an effort to trivialize public input, to suggest that it is a circus.
Said by
Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman defends the importance of public input in the NEPA process.

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