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On the recordDecember 7, 2021
This has to be that day. I have been here quite a while now, and I have been fobbed off and fobbed off and fobbed off over and over again.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse expresses frustration over repeated neglect of coastal conservation issues.

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