02/22/2021
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"There is great interest in our home State in what you all are trying to do."
"This is the bill that would consolidate a splintered ownership of land in our home State and protect almost 16,500 acres of new wilderness along the lower John Day River."
"Is it fair to say that the deal falls apart without certainty for the private owners?"
"Just very briefly, Madam Chair, in our part of the world, disputes in the West about taking water from a river used to be resolved with a gun."