The Minnpost chose to include Congressman Walz's remarks in the article Officials hail new I-35W bridge and the workers who made it happen:
Congressman Tim Walz
"Politics and governance are not synonymous, but there are time when they cross each other's path at a perfect sweet spot, and that sweet spot was on the rebuilding of this bridge; showing what we could do when we came together; showing when we came together for common purpose, not division, what could happen."
Photo: From the AP, Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher recognizes sisters Randy-Lynn and Mary-Juanita Leonard, who were on the school bus that was on the Interstate 35W bridge when it collapsed. In the upper right hand corner of the picture, Congressman Walz looks on.
(H/T to the Political Muse) In his floor remarks on the anniversary of the bridge collapse, Walz, a teacher, recalled seeing the school bus the Leonard sisters were in:
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