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Lamar Alexander: “But on the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, we already got $9 billion that should have been spent on our harbors, yet the…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2016
But on the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, we already got $9 billion that should have been spent on our harbors, yet the President's budget only asks for $986 million, about $194 million short of the target that Congress set for this year.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Expressing concern about insufficient spending from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

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