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Frank Pallone: the budget bill that they want us to vote on, the one we were supposed to vote on last week, cuts funding for levees…

On the recordOctober 25, 2005
the budget bill that they want us to vote on, the one we were supposed to vote on last week, cuts funding for levees again, not necessarily the one in New Orleans, but other levees in Louisiana. This is part of the funding cuts. They want to cut levee construction now. This is not the same one that fell in New Orleans.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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