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Claire McCaskill: If individual Members of Congress were not injecting their priorities within the priorities that the engineers had…

On the recordFebruary 8, 2012
If individual Members of Congress were not injecting their priorities within the priorities that the engineers had determined were the best cost-benefit analysis for all of the uses of the rivers and the most important in terms of protection of property and protection of life, would the Army Corps be able to prioritize the funds given to them in a way that would address the most urgent needs of our waterways?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill questions the impact of congressional priorities on flood management funding.

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