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Rob Bishop: “I cannot begin to imagine the outcry if the Congress proposed expropriating two-thirds of the state of Massachusetts.”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
I cannot begin to imagine the outcry if the Congress proposed expropriating two-thirds of the state of Massachusetts.
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Rob Bishop
Republican · Utah

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Bishop highlighted the disparity in federal land ownership between Utah and Massachusetts.

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