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On the recordJune 18, 2012
I do not think anyone, when they passed the Endangered Species Act, expected a community... to have to wait over a decade just for the Federal bureaucrat to say, 'OK, you can start construction on a school.'
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights delays caused by the Endangered Species Act on school construction.

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