WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following weekly report on May 8, 2023:

In 1941, the federal government pledged to build flood control measures along the whole Mississippi River, but decades of incorrect information and bureaucratic stalling kept a solution out of reach for the South Delta. In the eighty years since, the people of the Yazoo Backwater Area have experienced setback after setback waiting for the government to keep its promise.

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