01/27/2009
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"My region is home to the largest ports in the nation, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach."
"This Congress must also address inequities in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund. It is not fair for harbors like mine to be paying so much in tax and receive so little."
"As of a few years ago, my ports were receiving nearly nothing back until, working together with then-Ranking Member DeFazio, we were successful in enacting language in WRRDA 2014 that required the Arm..."
"We urge Congress to provide the funds necessary to maintain and upgrade crucial infrastructure projects."