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Jon Tester: “This is not a top-down bill. This is a bottom-up bill.”

On the recordJuly 29, 2013
This is not a top-down bill. This is a bottom-up bill.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester describes the Heritage Act as a grassroots initiative.

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