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On the recordJune 14, 2022
I think if we can continue to support, Mr. Chairman, the Coastal Fund, which got, for instance, $492 million, the biggest allocation it has ever received, in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, and we have other plans for additional revenues, then we don't have to get into a fight between coastal and upland and saltwater and freshwater.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Advocating for continued support of the Coastal Fund and its funding allocation.

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