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James Oberstar: “In the preceding Congress, this amendment was offered on the floor during consideration of the WRDA bill, and it passed…”

On the recordApril 19, 2007
In the preceding Congress, this amendment was offered on the floor during consideration of the WRDA bill, and it passed by voice vote; WRDA passed by 406 votes. It requires adequate budgeting by the administration for maintenance of small, low-use harbors. These are relatively smaller harbors; they may not handle thousands of containers or millions of tons of bulk commodities shipped on the Great Lakes, as we do in the Harbor of Duluth, but they are important projects and facilities that place lives and livelihoods at risk on the fierce storms of the Great Lakes, because these are also harbors of refuge. So I strongly support it.
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James Oberstar
Democratic · Minnesota
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Discussing the importance of maintaining small, low-use harbors during debate on the WRDA bill.

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