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On the recordJanuary 11, 2022
Of your $1.72 billion, 97.7 percent will go inland. You do understand that part of the coastal damage that you are referring to, part of the climate risk that you referred to, is sea levels rising, worse coastal storms, and resulting coastal flooding, correct?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse highlights the disproportionate funding for inland versus coastal flooding.

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