05/17/2010
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"A reliable and efficient supply chain is critical to our global competitiveness and to our economy, and the ports are an absolute vital link in that chain."
"Statement of Senator Thune."
"It is an issue that is important to our country and something that Congress has been trying to fix for over a decade."
"this is just a very punitive tax on family farms and small businesses."