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Chuck Schumer: “It would be penny-wise and a pound foolish to give LIPA $800 million without helping to harden and modernize an electric…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2012
It would be penny-wise and a pound foolish to give LIPA $800 million without helping to harden and modernize an electric grid.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Schumer argues against funding LIPA without grid improvements.

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