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Derrick Van Orden: “Luckily nobody was injured and no fertilizer was spilled in the trout stream.”

On the recordMarch 20, 2024
Luckily nobody was injured and no fertilizer was spilled in the trout stream.
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Derrick Van Orden
Republican · Wisconsin

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Commenting on a culvert collapse in his district that avoided disaster.

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