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On the recordApril 9, 2018
Those of us from coastal States take warnings like that from our Federal mortgage providers pretty damned seriously, as I think you would expect we should.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse emphasizes the seriousness of warnings about economic losses in coastal states.

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