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On the recordJanuary 11, 2022
We are going to have to have a bit of a conversation about why 97.7 percent goes to inland and about 2.3 percent goes to coastal of that $1.72 billion.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse questions the allocation of flood funding between inland and coastal areas.

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