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On the recordJuly 27, 2021
I will confess that my patience is at an end, as a Senator from the Ocean State, with continuing to put up with passing WRDA bills that countenance my State, the Chairman's State, Senator Wicker's State, and other coastal States losing out by 45 to 1.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper expresses frustration over funding disparities favoring inland states over coastal states.

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