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in June 2004. She was later re-elected to three full terms in the U.S. House before losing a re-election bid in 2010 to Republican Kristi Noem.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Two U.S. senators who symbolize disagreements between upstream and downstream states over management of the Missouri River say last year's historic flooding was a unifying moment.
• Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., toured dams and levees along the river on Tuesday and Wednesday. Their home states have long battled over whether the river should be managed to benefit upstream recreation or downstream navigation, but the flooding last summer has put flood control at the forefront of priorities.

• "That was certainly a unifying moment we hadn't had on the Missouri River before," Blunt said.
• Hoeven and Blunt say they are working in the Senate to initiate a new era of cooperation among Missouri River states to improve flood control and river management. The two last year helped form a working group of senators from Missouri River states and also worked on the Senate Appropriations Committee to help secure hundreds of millions of dollars for Army Corps of Engineers flood recovery efforts.
• "Flood control is the

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