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Sam Graves: “These lives, this loss of lives, first of all, they matter. And second of all, every single one of them was preventable.”

On the recordApril 21, 2015
These lives, this loss of lives, first of all, they matter. And second of all, every single one of them was preventable.
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Sam Graves
Republican · Missouri

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Graves emphasizes the preventable nature of lives lost during disasters.

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