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Jim Risch: “It is a seaport. So long as the dams remain in the lower Snake River, it will be a seaport.”

On the recordOctober 7, 2009
It is a seaport. So long as the dams remain in the lower Snake River, it will be a seaport.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Senator Risch asserts that Lewiston, Idaho, is a functioning seaport.

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