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On the recordDecember 13, 2017
Perhaps that is why our Constitution gives to Congress, and not to the President, authority over the public lands, so that decisions like this that affect the livelihoods of families across the West would be done in the open.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock stresses Congress's role in public land decisions for transparency.

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