House Proceeding 10-01-09 on Oct 1st, 2009 :: 0:28:20 to 0:29:35
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Ed Pastor: a new start and, therefore, deserves to be fully funded next year. every year that goes by, however, without adequate funding, further damages are -- our fragile ecosystem there in the indian river lagoon makes recovery that much harder. i'd like to thank my fellow florida colleagues, especially congresswoman wasserman schultz,

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Speech By: Ed Pastor

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Ed Pastor: for their tiress work and support on these projects and for the house in including it in the original house bill. i look forward t good work that we started. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from arizona. mr. pastor: in response to the comment from my friend from fl

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Ed Pastor: bill, and there were few, and the everglades got two, we have the number of 100,000, but that was -- that significant any find that n this project. by designating the new start for the everglades, that means that

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Ed Pastor: recovery money can be used now for the purpose that you spoke about. secondly, the corps will now be able to reprogram money that's now designated as new start, can reprogram money to continue the efforts on this lagoon.

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Ed Pastor: and so we thought that the new start was not a cutback in money but was a vehicle that will make