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Eleanor Holmes Norton: Are you engaged in that kind of really foresighted advice to--as part of mitigation that apparently the whole vision of…

On the recordApril 2, 2014
Are you engaged in that kind of really foresighted advice to--as part of mitigation that apparently the whole vision of what you did before is no longer viable, in light of these unprecedented storms and other climate events that we are experiencing?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton questions the need for new strategies in disaster mitigation.

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