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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
Does that tell me that you need a disaster in order to get a building code? Would that not be terrible?
Said by
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions if disasters are necessary for states to adopt building codes.

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