While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

Kind is the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip and co-founder of both the Upper Mississippi River Congressional Caucus and the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus and co-vice-chair of the New Democrat Coalition. Early life education and career
Kind was born and raised in La Crosse. There was also a push to draft Kind to run for governor in 2012 against Scott Walker.

S. Representative for Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district.