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In a speech May 9 on the U.S. Senate floor, Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (left) of Mississippi said the federal government should complete a massive pump project that's designed to help drain water from the confluence of the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers. The state's Democratic attorney general, Jim Hood (right), has expressed concerns about how federal flood management projects are affecting the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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