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On the recordJuly 26, 2023
So that is a huge vulnerability, I guess what I'm arguing with limited resources, I would much rather see us spend $60 to $90 billion to purchase those now, put those in place offline in case you have one of those high catastrophic events, but we're not doing that.
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Lester Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson emphasizes the need to invest in power transformers to mitigate vulnerabilities.

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