01/23/2014
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"this project was moved much closer to reality in October as Congressman Rice assisted mightily with the passage of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act"
"Looking at the Coast Guard missions listed here, 11 statutory missions, to fully implement these--and looking, also, at this table that shows how many of these missions were met and how many weren't m..."
"I would like to know if ours are--I just keep hearing that ours are very much more strict, and that is one of the reasons why our shipping fleet has dropped from 1,000 American-flag ships in internati..."
"Well, you know, I mean, there are excesses in every department, in every entity."