VIDEO — Heinrich: “This is a Dark Day for This Body. This is a Stain on What the Senate Used to Be”
Senator Martin Heinrich delivered a floor speech condemning the passage of a measure allowing mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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Senator Martin Heinrich condemned the Senate's passage of H.J.Res. 140, a measure allowing copper-nickel mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, calling it a "dark day" for the institution.
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