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On the recordDecember 8, 2004
There's a bridge that connects my district with the neighboring state of Arkansas, that if that bridge is taken out, you would have to go 100 miles to get to the other side of the river. Well, it was not listed.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Thompson highlights the omission of critical infrastructure from the national database of potential terrorist targets.

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