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Norvell Emerson: “I guess I just look at it from the point of view of my constituents. The counties, the several counties that would be…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
I guess I just look at it from the point of view of my constituents. The counties, the several counties that would be tied up in my district are those of the poorest part of my district where there is a great deal of unemployment and a great deal of poverty. The buffer zone where they live is limited in land use for the future, or that is how the proposal was. Consequently, we could not economically develop that area so we could not get more jobs there. The only few jobs we have are tourism-related jobs. We cannot bring in big trucks. We cannot build better highways in that kind of a situation.
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Norvell Emerson
Republican · Missouri
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Discussing economic development challenges in her district during a floor speech.

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