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Lloyd Doggett: “My concern is that that is all they plan to do; that they want to have good public relations but that they intend to…”

On the recordApril 17, 1996
My concern is that that is all they plan to do; that they want to have good public relations but that they intend to continue, as far as I know they have not stopped their closed-door meetings with the polluters and special interest lobbies that they have here every week; that they will have the smiley face out there but they will still be trying to sneak attack with the environmental riders and the slashing of the law enforcement budgets for those that are there to try to assure that we have the clean drinking water that people in central Texas want and the clean air that I know people across the country want.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Addressing concerns about environmental policy and lobbying practices.

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