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Garret Graves: “If I destroyed something, you would come after me. And if I destroyed wetlands, you know who would come after me? The…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
If I destroyed something, you would come after me. And if I destroyed wetlands, you know who would come after me? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, yet they are the greatest cause of loss to coastal wetlands in the Nation.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Graves points out the hypocrisy of federal enforcement on wetland destruction.

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