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On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
lower Mississippi River, biggest waterway in the Country, one of the biggest in the world, reduced in some cases to one-way traffic.
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David Vitter
Republican · Louisiana

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Vitter underscores the critical status of the Mississippi River's traffic.

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