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Jim Inhofe: “The mission, though, originally, and you probably have done a lot of study on this, all the way back to 1970, was to…”

On the recordMay 5, 2015
The mission, though, originally, and you probably have done a lot of study on this, all the way back to 1970, was to list, but also to delist if you are successful.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe discusses the original mission of the Endangered Species Act regarding listing and delisting species.

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