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On the recordMarch 21, 2016
I hope that, in the same bipartisan spirit that launched EPA in 1970, that we can rededicate ourselves to the basic public health protections that are the reasons that this agency was brought into existence.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Fred Upton calls for a return to EPA's core mission of public health protection.

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