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On the recordJanuary 28, 2010
We have made all kinds of efforts . . . to help provide the funding necessary to mitigate the damages of flooding at Devils Lake. But I have always insisted, I am not interested in transferring the problem from one region of our State to another.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan emphasizes the need to address flooding without shifting the problem elsewhere.

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