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Jim Risch: What I think right now is our approach right now is to clean up after the fact instead of mitigating before the…

On the recordMarch 13, 2013
What I think right now is our approach right now is to clean up after the fact instead of mitigating before the disasters occur.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch criticizes the focus on post-disaster recovery rather than prevention.

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