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On the recordJune 27, 2016
In your view, did the Administration take these economic issues, foreign policy implications and national security implications into consideration when determining that ten-million-acre figure?
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

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Barrasso questions if the Administration considered economic and security issues in their decision.

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