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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 02:10 AM Jan 2020

WOWT: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigns in Council Bluffs days before C

WOWT

6 News sat down with Biden one-on-one to address issues that matter to people in this part of the state.

After spending a lot of time in flood-stricken communities, one of the concerns heard over and over again is about the way the Corps of Engineers has been managing the Missouri River. We asked if he would work to make any changes.

Biden said, "I think the Corps has to have more resources. The problem is increasing all across the country, not just the Midwest. And we have to start to really focus in on climate change and make some significant changes. And we have to build infrastructure to what the circumstance is today not to what it was - we have to build it up - for example when the Missouri River was flooded a while ago, highways were wiped out -- you have to raise highways up."
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