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Garret Graves: “We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2016
We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars through the Department of Transportation.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Graves emphasizes the need for funding and programs to address flood recovery.

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