Earl Blumenauer: “the previous colleague who was concerned about this said it was time…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2005

the previous colleague who was concerned about this said it was time to rebuild the locks. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the project is. The project is not about rebuilding the locks. We have been doing that over the last 25 years. In fact, there is an $88 million project going right now for Lock 24. This is a $1.8 billion addition, building new locks in addition to what we already have there. In that regard, the proposal that the gentleman from Arizona and I have offered up, saying we do not do a new one unless it is justified, seems reasonable, modest and important.

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Earl Blumenauer

Democratic · Oregon

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