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On the recordJuly 27, 2011
I rise in support of the amendment. We understand that this is a huge 2.5 million-acre park and that what we're talking about here is a 158-mile-long river in the middle of this park, so we're talking about a huge area.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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