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Barbara Boxer: “It does not make any sense, it seems to me, to choose an option that is like $1 billion instead of $2 billion, I am just…”

On the recordJune 15, 2009
It does not make any sense, it seems to me, to choose an option that is like $1 billion instead of $2 billion, I am just throwing a number out, when you could spend $1 billion and have $40 billion worth of damages and spend $2 billion and not have any damage.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Boxer argues for investing in better flood prevention to avoid massive damages.

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