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Catherine Cortez Masto: “Now my understanding of that then is that all of the talk that I have heard today, which is important talk about new…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2017
Now my understanding of that then is that all of the talk that I have heard today, which is important talk about new infrastructure, burying lines, looking at how we add renewable capacity, that is something that is not going to be addressed through the funding through the relief that comes from the Federal Government.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Senator Cortez Masto highlights limitations of federal disaster relief funding for infrastructure improvements.

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