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Cory Booker: “Why should we be afraid of States' rights to take action, especially when the EPA's budget, as we are seeing right now…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
Why should we be afraid of States' rights to take action, especially when the EPA's budget, as we are seeing right now, continues to get hacked away and away?
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker questions the removal of states' rights in the context of budget cuts to the EPA.

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