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Dick Durbin: “What I see is the flow of the Mississippi River, and all its tributaries into the Gulf of Mexico, and all of those…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2011
What I see is the flow of the Mississippi River, and all its tributaries into the Gulf of Mexico, and all of those chemicals we pay so much for in Illinois, coming down that river into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin discusses the pollution from Illinois affecting the Gulf of Mexico.

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