Al Franken actually said...

Here is a very, very, very profitable industry and yet this $45 million program is being footed by the taxpayers.

Franken criticizes taxpayers covering costs for a profitable industry.

03/19/2012

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At this rate it will never get done. It just will never get done.

This is a major issue in Southwestern Minnesota which is a rural part of my State that doesn't have enough water.

I'm glad that you said that if it was up to you it would be fully funded.

This feels like, to me, like a broken promise to those states and those communities.