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On the recordMarch 3, 2015
If you are going to say listen, the states have the option to pull themselves out and we recognize they have an interest, and we are going to honor that they have an interest, et cetera, than in the case of the Gulf of Mexico, it is not as if we have an interest, rather, we must do exactly what we are told.
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Bill Cassidy
Republican · Louisiana

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Cassidy argues that states should have control over federal resources.

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