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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJune 9, 2010
We told them from day one, 'You will not clean it up out of the marsh.' They said it will never get there. Well, it is there.
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida
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Highlighting the failure to heed warnings about oil contamination in marshes.

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