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On the recordApril 21, 2015
You can either, you know, sort of spread the money around and not do anything very well and drive up the cost of new projects, or you can concentrate the assets, the inadequate funding, and get some things done but then not do other things like dredging small ports.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio discusses the difficult choices in budget allocation for the Corps.

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