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On the recordOctober 11, 2017
I hope that in the very near future, this subcommittee can take a hard look at what went wrong in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands so we can make sure people in our country never suffer like this again.
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Peter King
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

King emphasizes the need to review failures in disaster preparedness after Hurricane Maria.

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