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Republicans add measure to strip forest protections to wildfire bill, endangering Dem support
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Republican senators have thrown a wrench into an effort to pass a wildfire prevention bill, adding a controversial amendment seeking to nullify Clinton-era forest protections. It’s a move that Democrats say makes the underlying legislation less likely to pass, since they won’t get behind the move to
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