Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

If I am not mistaken, only about a third, and correct me if I am wrong, of States seem to have building codes.

Does that tell me that you need a disaster in order to get a building code? Would that not be terrible?

In my experience, you never get legislation passed in the Congress by showing dollars and cents saved.

the manifestations may be different, but leave aside the discussion on climate change because we do not know why this is happening