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Lamar Alexander: “We must find out why this wall failed. Because to clean this up, Senators, makes $25 million just look like pennies.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
We must find out why this wall failed. Because to clean this up, Senators, makes $25 million just look like pennies.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the need to investigate the dam failure and its cleanup costs.

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