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Don Nickles: I was going to say, the grazing provisions were also seriously objected to. So you have removed the really contentious…

On the recordSeptember 28, 1996
I was going to say, the grazing provisions were also seriously objected to. So you have removed the really contentious issues. I have looked through the list of 46. There are some Democrat's, and mostly Republican projects. For most of those there is not a great deal of land, there are not significant projects that they are trying to have removed. But it bothers me to think in many cases there has never been an objection raised to any of those, even in the Senate, when we passed it in the past, or from the House. Is that not correct?
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Discussing objections to grazing provisions and project removals in legislative debate.

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