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Summer Lee: “I am just sort of perplexed as to why, for a second year in a row, the USGS is proposing to cut the funding for OpenET…”

On the recordMay 21, 2024
I am just sort of perplexed as to why, for a second year in a row, the USGS is proposing to cut the funding for OpenET by more than 85 percent.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Lee expresses confusion over proposed funding cuts to the OpenET program.

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