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WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 75 senators are demanding a vote on a river navigation project that faces resistance from the White House.
The lawmakers sent a letter this week to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., urging consideration of the Water Resources Development Act, despite a lack of support in President Bush's budget proposal.
The $10 billion spending bill — which includes $3.6 billion to expand locks and pay for ecosystem restoration along the upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers — was approved in the House by a wide margin last year.
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