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On the recordApril 16, 2018
To encourage more drilling for oil and gas on public lands and offshore to pay for park deferred maintenance is, in my view, shortsighted and not the way to go.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono criticizes using oil drilling to fund park maintenance as a poor strategy.

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