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Jon Tester: “When you took over, you pulled that off the table and that is not doing justice to taxpayers.”

On the recordJune 20, 2017
When you took over, you pulled that off the table and that is not doing justice to taxpayers.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester criticizes the removal of a review for fair coal lease values.

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