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On the recordMay 7, 2012
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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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey questions the implications of undermining the Lacey Act on domestic timber industries.

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