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Mary Landrieu: “It may be shocking, Senator, to think about this, but 47,000 personnel and 7,000 vessels responded to that accident.”

On the recordAugust 5, 2012
It may be shocking, Senator, to think about this, but 47,000 personnel and 7,000 vessels responded to that accident.
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Mary Landrieu
Democratic · Louisiana

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Landrieu highlights the scale of the response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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