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Bill Nelson: If the Senator will yield and if I may comment, all of those red portions, save for the very southern tip of Florida…

On the recordJune 22, 2005
If the Senator will yield and if I may comment, all of those red portions, save for the very southern tip of Florida, which is the Everglades, sit mainly along the coast. That is where the population of Florida mainly resides. Why can't the United States insurance industry understand this and get behind this, with the exception of the reinsurance company about which the Senator from Connecticut just spoke? Why can they not understand that it is in their economic interest because it is going to be their insureds who are going to be threatened?
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Bill Nelson
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