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We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

Jennifer Granholm

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Jennifer Granholm
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 5
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