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Article: SEN. LANDRIEU BLOCKS ARMY CORPS NOMINEE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 3, 2007
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The office of Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., issued the following press release:
Standing at the 17th Street Canal levee which was breached following Hurricane Katrina, Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today announced that she has placed a procedural hold on the nomination of Lieutenant General Robert Van Antwerp to be the new Chief of Engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers.
"We cannot protect our communities without effective leadership and competent management," Sen. Landrieu said. "We've seen only too recently what happens when these qualities are missing."
Sen. Landrieu, Chairman of the Disaster Recovery Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, ...
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