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On the recordMarch 18, 2014
Right now, there is only a 2 percent or less success rate in recovery of species listed under the Endangered Species Act. Well, that is a failed law.
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis criticizes the low success rate of the Endangered Species Act.

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