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Garret Graves: “There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2016
There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Graves expresses frustration over the perception of disaster response costs.

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