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Eleanor Holmes Norton: What did we learn from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from other disasters in the United States and around the world?

On the recordJuly 26, 2009
What did we learn from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from other disasters in the United States and around the world?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Questioning lessons learned from past disasters to improve future responses.

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