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On the recordFebruary 29, 2012
This bill has bipartisan support. Other things being equal, I think we tend to listen to the Representative in whose district the project would exist. This project is in the district of my colleague, Ron Kind, from the State of Wisconsin, and at this time I would be happy to yield him 4 minutes.
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Thomas E. Petri
Wisconsin

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