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On the recordJune 8, 2022
We have lost about 2,000 square miles of our coast. That is like taking the State of Rhode Island and just wiping it off the map entirely.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Discussing the severe coastal erosion in South Louisiana.

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