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On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
Bold leadership produced the Endangered Species Act in 1973, perhaps the most effective piece of environmental legislation in our country's history.
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Newton Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Gingrich praises the Endangered Species Act as a successful environmental law.

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