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On the recordMarch 2, 2010
We have spent more than a century and billions of dollars of public and private money protecting these landscapes and these areas.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander highlights the investment in protecting U.S. landscapes against energy projects.

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