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On the recordDecember 5, 2017
But that when you are looking at GAO saying, look, it could be $5 trillion in coastal damage in the decades ahead, and it is going to be $50 billion a year, that is something worth paying more attention to.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Emphasizes the need for attention to coastal damage costs.

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