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On the recordJune 18, 2012
This represents just less than a 1-1/2 percent recovery rate, and I do not think anybody should be proud of that.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Hastings criticizes the low recovery rate of species under the Endangered Species Act.

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