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Rob Bishop: “I cannot help thinking that if we were doing our jobs and getting all of the government agencies--Interior, Ag, Forest…”

On the recordMay 18, 2010
I cannot help thinking that if we were doing our jobs and getting all of the government agencies--Interior, Ag, Forest Service, and Homeland Security--to work together and do the right thing for people, just to take a commonsense approach, that we would lower at least the rhetoric of the discussion, and we would raise the security feeling of people, and maybe people like Rob Krentz would be alive today to be with his family.
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Rob Bishop
Republican · Utah
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May 18, 2010

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The speaker discusses the impact of federal border security on state legislation and public safety.

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