11/01/2011
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"Morale is at an all-time low and these dedicated public servants are exhausted. The president's hiring freeze only further compounded the vacancies."
"the deaths of 11 people just in Florida from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of generators."
"Mr. Chairman, I want to enter into the record something that would help us, a statement from 'The Washington Post,' a piece on shrinking the National Weather Service staff, and how that is inimical to..."
"The devastation to Florida's infrastructure after hurricanes is one of the reasons I authored the original legislation creating the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act."