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William Zeliff: “I think that the Contract With America and all that we were trying to do in terms of giving back some of the power to…”

On the recordMay 10, 1995
I think that the Contract With America and all that we were trying to do in terms of giving back some of the power to the States to make decisions classifying what a wetlands is and a wetland is not makes all the sense in the world, and so that kind of common sense brings us into the 21st century. Regulations and laws that cost all of us in taking precious rights away from us as individuals, putting those regulations back with the States and all those things make a lot of good common sense and hopefully go----
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William Zeliff
Republican · New Hampshire
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Discussing the Contract With America and state power over wetlands classification.

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