And so I am strongly supportive of the Mississippi River Restoration and Resilience Initiative. Mr. RRR I as it's known and it's basically patterned after the success of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. I've introduced legislation to do this similar initiative on the Mississippi river. and I'm working really hard to make sure that it is strongly bipartisan. If you think about the senators who represent Mississippi river states, that's a really great bipartisan group of senators and I'm hopeful that we can really elevate that focus. (34:16–34:25)
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