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Garret Graves: “I also caution that it needs to be means-tested because we have a lot of people who don't live on the coast...”

On the recordNovember 19, 2019
I also caution that it needs to be means-tested because we have a lot of people who don't live on the coast...
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Graves emphasizes the need for means-testing flood insurance to avoid pricing out rural residents.

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