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Mike Levin: “My recollection is that on the Senate floor we did add a significant protection, a criteria before the Endangered…”

On the recordNovember 11, 2003
My recollection is that on the Senate floor we did add a significant protection, a criteria before the Endangered Species Act would be ignored. That was under the Lautenberg amendment that we would require there be a conservation benefit provided as well as adequate funding provided if the Department of Defense was going to proceed. The Senator from Vermont's recollection relative to the committee perhaps refers to what we did on the Senate floor, which he also referred to in his remarks, where we did add important protection that was missing when the bill came to the floor, but a very close vote on the floor added that protection.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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Discussing amendments related to the Endangered Species Act during Senate floor debate.

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