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Jon Tester: “If we get this water settlement through, and no matter how that $35 million is spent, you understand better than anybody…”

On the recordOctober 19, 2011
If we get this water settlement through, and no matter how that $35 million is spent, you understand better than anybody in this room what kind of benefit it is going to be to the Blackfeet people.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester emphasizes the importance of the water settlement for the Blackfeet people.

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