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Lee Terry: Let's get back to the Corps' roots and initial purposes here, and control the floods.

On the recordNovember 29, 2011
Let's get back to the Corps' roots and initial purposes here, and control the floods.
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Lee Terry
Nebraska

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Lee Terry calls for a return to the Corps' original focus on flood control.

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