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Richard Blumenthal: The failure to plan for this kind of contingency and provide backup sources of power was a failing that we cannot permit…

On the recordOctober 27, 2013
The failure to plan for this kind of contingency and provide backup sources of power was a failing that we cannot permit to be repeated.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Emphasizing the need for better planning to prevent future outages.

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