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Mazie Hirono: My inclination is to think that after events that communities do that. Before events, they do not do enough of that.

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
My inclination is to think that after events that communities do that. Before events, they do not do enough of that.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono discusses community responses to zoning after disasters.

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