“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
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On the recordFebruary 9, 1994
I again would like to express my appreciation to the Senators from Iowa and Missouri for their help to crafting this amendment and their cosponsorship. We are in agreement that the critical task of disaster hazard mitigation is long overdue and critical if we are ever to reduce the mounting cost of responding to these natural disasters. We are in agreement that property acquired for flood mitigation should be permanently reserved from disaster damage prone development. I urge adoption of the amendment.
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Mark Hatfield
Oregon
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The speaker is discussing the importance of disaster hazard mitigation and a related amendment.

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