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On the recordMay 10, 2023
With only 16 days left of his administration, President Obama pulled the Federal leases and moved to ban mining for purely political reasons.
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Pete Stauber
Republican · Minnesota

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Criticism of President Obama's mining ban as politically motivated.

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