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Jim Risch: “It would be unconscionable to allow this proposed legislation, S. 409, to go forward.”

On the recordJune 16, 2009
It would be unconscionable to allow this proposed legislation, S. 409, to go forward.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Opposing legislation that would harm public lands and mineral wealth.

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