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Sam Farr: I rise in favor of this bill with the amendment, accept that because it is essentially a bottom-up process and we all…

On the recordJuly 9, 1997
I rise in favor of this bill with the amendment, accept that because it is essentially a bottom-up process and we all got here from local government, and this is where people who live on the land take care of it, both sides of the issue, environmentalists and non-environmentalists, have come to consensus. I think it is a good bill and we ought to support it.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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Supporting a bill related to local government and environmental consensus.

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