On the recordOctober 7, 2015
So if you take those figures, you take $685,000 up to a billion, you subtract out $100 million, and we are still talking about $500 million to almost $900 million in costs that are not covered.
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congress.govMartin Heinrich: “So if you take those figures, you take $685,000 up to a billion, you subtract out $100 million, and we are still talking…”
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Heinrich discusses the funding gap for the Gila River diversion project.
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