03/09/2010
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"This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent of the GDP of this Nation."
"But the law does say very clearly here that it has to be in plain English."
"We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon."
"I am going to really be pushing this subcommittee, the whole Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, and the Congress to get complete and accurate flood maps done before we engage in tr..."