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Reid: Bridge collapse is ‘wake-up call'
by gmony714 | August 2, 2007 at 02:09 pm
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The bodies of the victims of the Minnesota bridge collapse have yet to be recovered but that didn't stop the Dems from trying to score political points.
it took less than a day for the disastrous bridge collapse in Minneapolis to turn into a political flap on Capitol Hill.As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) opened the Thursday session of the Senate, he warned that the bridge disaster was a “wake-up call” regarding infrastructure investment across the country.
Later, Reid and other Democratic leaders went a step further, bashing Republicans for failing to pass a water resources and development act, known as WRDA on Capitol Hill, for seven years, saying that the bill was essential to investing in American infrastructure.
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at 18:53 on August 2nd, 2007
Chilling, but I think it won't be the last time politicians use such disasters as a rallying point.
Good stuff