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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJune 1, 2015
I appreciate your mentioning our New Jersey grant because, obviously, we did have a lot of vulnerabilities during Super Storm Sandy.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey
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Pallone acknowledges the vulnerabilities faced by New Jersey during Super Storm Sandy.

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