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On the recordJune 4, 2024
Is it responsible for Congress to say we're going to ignore the enormous damage that climate change is doing across our country through fires, through smoke, through ice storms, through flash floods, through hurricanes, and we'll just somehow back up the insurance market.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley questions Congress's responsibility in addressing climate change's impact on insurance.

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