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On the recordOctober 27, 2013
Wouldn't it have been a better practice either to have a backup or at least to have a plan?
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal questions the lack of a contingency plan for the outage.

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