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Chaka Fattah: “I'm going to be brief. This amendment seeks to intervene or prohibit a court-supervised settlement of an 18-year running…”

On the recordMay 9, 2012
I'm going to be brief. This amendment seeks to intervene or prohibit a court-supervised settlement of an 18-year running litigation having to do with some very delicate issues that he has I think articulated around an endangered species of salmon. To do this at this hour of the night on this bill I think is not prudent. I'm opposed to it, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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Chaka Fattah
Pennsylvania
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May 9, 2012

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