Brian Schatz said "I certainly don't want to see us using taxpayer dollars to have to do environmental mitigation on land that we went out of our way to acquire." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 9, 2015

I certainly don't want to see us using taxpayer dollars to have to do environmental mitigation on land that we went out of our way to acquire.

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Senator Schatz expresses concern about unnecessary taxpayer spending on environmental issues.

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