Does that tell me that you need a disaster in order to get a building code? Would that not be terrible?
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Does that tell me that you need a disaster in order to get a building code? Would that not be terrible?”
On the recordJuly 23, 2012
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Norton questions if disasters are necessary for states to adopt building codes.
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