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Tom Coburn: “Having been unintelligent and ignorant, what I would put forth and focus on is there are people who do not have the…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
Having been unintelligent and ignorant, what I would put forth and focus on is there are people who do not have the right to do what they had the right to do before the Man and the Biosphere Program came into their own land. The gentleman can say that does not exist, but there was testimony in the Committee on Resources about the State of New York, the Adirondacks, and I would refer the gentleman to that testimony, where local landowners and officials referred to that.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of the Man and the Biosphere Program on local land rights.

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