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Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

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This amendment would require the US army to acquire easement along the Santa Ynez pipeline in California. Not properly ownership in ease, not property ownership, but in easement. For more than a century, the US army has used its existing authority under Title 10 to acquire easements that protect critical supply chains. During World War II, the United States government routinely condemned land that was used to build ammunition plants to supply our troops in Europe. In 1941, when U boats threatened tanker routes supplying the northeast. (00:32–00:41)

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Asserts that the US army has historically used Title 10 to acquire easements for supply chains.

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