Less than a year after one of the most devastating tsunami's the world has ever seen, the Department of Commerce decided that NOAA's tsunami warning program was, according to standards outlined in your testimony, nonessential, redundant, and of low priority.
Inouye highlights the irony of cutting tsunami warning funding post-disaster.
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