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Byron Dorgan: I don't know if there are people in the room who are old enough to have been here, in Bismarck and Mandan, when there…

On the recordNovember 10, 2009
I don't know if there are people in the room who are old enough to have been here, in Bismarck and Mandan, when there was chronic flooding with a rather wild Missouri River.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan recalls past flooding issues in Bismarck and Mandan.

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