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Ron Johnson: “The Corps of Army Engineers commissioned eight studies that…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson Discusses Victims of Government on The Kudlow Report

Published | Video Starts at 01:49

And you're saying that the Wetlands Clean Water act, that the EPA was on him ankle, biting him every step of the way until he went bankrupt. Is this basically the EPA story? It was actually The Corps of Army Engineers commissioned eight studies that all said that [Steve] should convert that dump into a lake. When he did so, somebody else in the Army Corps said, no, that was a wet line. You got to turn it back into a dump. (01:49–01:56)

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Asserts that the Army Corps of Engineers initially supported converting the dump into a lake.

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