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Tom Tiffany: “That bill has the strongest environmental protections for a…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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WisPolitics-State Affairs Luncheon: GOP Congressman Tom Tiffany

Published | Video Starts at 21:45

I believe that if something's legal, there should not be a moratorium on it. And what we did, though, is we made sure that we got good input in regards to the environmental protections. That bill has the strongest environmental protections for a mining law of any state in the country. I worked with, God bless his soul, George Meyer. I worked with George at the time, as well as a few other people. (21:45–21:53)

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