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Jim Costa: The suggestion that he would have thought that any citizen or group of citizens or the Congress of the United States was…

On the recordJuly 20, 2009
The suggestion that he would have thought that any citizen or group of citizens or the Congress of the United States was precluded by some deal or some judgment he had made a generation earlier from taking new action to express that love, on the basis of new information and new evidence in an entirely different context, is just utterly antithetical to everything he believed.
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Jim Costa
Democratic · California

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Costa argues against the notion that Udall's past decisions should limit future actions on conservation.

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