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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Excluding the District from the definition of state merely because it is not located in an area with a timber industry…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2019
Excluding the District from the definition of state merely because it is not located in an area with a timber industry runs counter to the clear intent of the Act.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes the exclusion of the District based on timber production criteria.

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