If a tree is illegally cut down in a forest and made into a guitar, do we make a sound about it?
Ed Markey: “If a tree is illegally cut down in a forest and made into a guitar, do we make a sound about it?”
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Markey questions the implications of undermining the Lacey Act on domestic timber industries.
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