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J. Exon: “Has the Senator ever considered the possibility of having these people proceed as they have with the identification of…”

On the recordMarch 12, 1996
Has the Senator ever considered the possibility of having these people proceed as they have with the identification of an endangered species, and then, before we added more species to that list, it be voted on by the Congress of the United States?
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J. Exon
Democratic · Nebraska

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Questioning the process of adding species to the endangered list during a Senate debate.

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