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Sidney Yates: “Will the gentleman tell us why the Republican majority agreed to nullify the environmental laws by depriving the public…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
Will the gentleman tell us why the Republican majority agreed to nullify the environmental laws by depriving the public of the right to protest the increases in the cuts?
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Sidney Yates
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning the Republican majority's actions regarding environmental laws.

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