07/15/2009
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"The work it did during the flooding event in 2011, insofar as what we saw in Tennessee, was a very good job."
"I hope we can have the same kind of success with flood warnings, which are, as others have said, a larger part of our damage than any other kind of disasters."
"My top priority is to do all I can to help the Federal Government participate in repairing President's Island near Memphis."
"The Mississippi River and tributary flood control project is the largest flood control project in the world."