03/09/2009
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"I want to applaud your committee for including my floor amendments last year expressing concern for proposed cuts to long-distance Amtrak routes."
"Yet before our eyes, they are succumbing to an ecological disaster of epic proportions, and an economy that struggles to reinvent itself."
"I would like to propose creating attention to the Great Lakes region, and I look forward in the future to presenting the committee with two proposals, one to augment the authorities of the Great Lakes..."
"If the Great Lakes were a nation, it would be the third largest economy in the world, with a GDP of more than $6 trillion."