This article is about the idiomatic phrase. For the actual process, see Swamp § Impacts and conservation.
Swampland near Benton Ridge, Ohio; the channel pictured is used to "drain the swamp".
Drain the swamp is a phrase which has frequently been used by politicians since the 1980s and in the U.S. often refers to reducing the influence of special interests and lobbyists. The phrase can allude to the physical draining of swamps which is conducted to keep mosquito populations low in order to combat malaria,[1] prevalent during the time in Washington, D.C., on supposed swampy grounds.[2]
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mosquito-breeding grounds were dried up. In the 1850s, the states began an organized attempt to draintheswamp for agricultural use and ease of travel....
Washington visited the area, and he and others founded the Dismal Swamp Company in a venture to draintheswamp and clear it for settlement. The company later...
drain and/or fill swamps and other wetlands in order to create more space for human development and to reduce the threat of diseases borne by swamp insects...
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of 'DrainingtheSwamp'". Roll Call. Retrieved November 15, 2016. Espo, David (October 6, 2006). "Pelosi Says She Would Drain GOP 'Swamp'". The Washington...
used the now famous phrase, "Draintheswamp". The focus was on eliminating waste and inefficiency in the US Federal government. The head of the commission...
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Okefenokee Swamp and drains at least 90 percent of theswamp's watershed southwest toward the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Marys River, which drains only 5 to...
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nobleman had the idea to draintheswamp. Prince Francesco Lanza di Scalea, with the help of a Belgian real estate company, built a plant for the drainage...
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construction. Dismal Swamp State Park is much drier than it was in the past. The efforts of man in the last 200 years to draintheswamp have left it drastically...
2017. Overby, Peter (November 15, 2017). "'DrainTheSwamp'? Hardly. Washington Appears More Stuck In The Muck Than Ever". NPR. Retrieved August 1, 2018...
The Suwannee Canal (also seen as the Suwanee Canel) was an attempt to drain large portions of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia via a canal. The spelling...
Island.. The twenty five feet wide canal was built to draintheswamp and in addition quarried to provide soil for the reclamation project. The canal cut...
Carter's Failure to 'DraintheSwamp'". Fortune. Retrieved November 15, 2016. Widmer, Ted (January 19, 2017). "DrainingtheSwamp". The New Yorker. Retrieved...
from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018. Netzley, Sara (March 3, 2019). "'Supergirl' recap: Kara tries to draintheswamp". Entertainment...
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systems, the Cloaca Maxima, which he used to draintheswamp-like area between the Seven Hills of Rome. In its place, he began construction on the Roman...
divorce on November 9, 2018, three days after the midterm election. Buck is Protestant. Buck's book DraintheSwamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse Than...
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Would Drain GOP 'Swamp'". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 15, 2016. Pelosi used the phrase drainingthe GOP swamp in 2006 to "break the link between...
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