Well, I just want to lay a warning that there is a growing number of Senators on both sides of the aisle that want the taxes paid by this industry to be used for the purposes in which they thought they were being taxed, which is the dredging and keeping open of these ports.
Landrieu warns about proper use of taxes for port maintenance.
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