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David Hobson: “If I might respond, you have got the problem correct and we are sympathetic to the problem because it is an economic…”

On the recordMay 24, 2006
If I might respond, you have got the problem correct and we are sympathetic to the problem because it is an economic development tax revenue situation that they do not seem to want to recognize. We have this both in the waterways there and renourishment programs, the dredging of some of these smaller harbors as have gone through on another situation. So I am very sympathetic to this. So far, we have not been able to get OMB to go along, but we have a new director of OMB, used to be a Member here, used to live on the Ohio River. Maybe he will understand it better than the other OMB directors we have.
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David Hobson
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