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David Vitter: “How are we possibly going to not curtail commerce when you are budgeting well less than half what we have spent in those…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2011
How are we possibly going to not curtail commerce when you are budgeting well less than half what we have spent in those previous years?
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David Vitter
Republican · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Vitter questions budget cuts affecting commerce in the Mississippi River.

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