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On the recordMarch 10, 2014
Here are two families. Here are two families who paid a price. That wasn't built into the price of fossil fuels, but they sure as heck paid it and they just didn't pay it in the wrecked front of a building and entirely ruined their little house there. They paid it also in the loss of all the memories of all the summers where they grew up back when this was their summer home. That is a real price. People paid a lot when this happened. And to write that off as if it is nothing, and have the polluters just keep going at it--no, that is not right. I yield the floor. Senator Schatz, I know you have some remarks you would like to make, and let me take another opportunity to thank you again for your leadership in bringing us together. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Mar 10, 2014

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