House Proceeding 05-12-09 on May 12th, 2009 :: 0:32:05 to 0:33:50
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Bart Gordon: the clerk: house resolution 387, pporting the goals and ideals of national hurricane preparedness week. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from tennessee, mr. gordon, and the gentleman from florida, mr. each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. mr. gordon: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all

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Speech By: Bart Gordon

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Bart Gordon: members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous merial on h. riss 387, the resolution now under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. gordon: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gordon: madam speaker, on

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Bart Gordon: june 1, hurricane season begins the atlantic ocean. noted hurricane forecasters in colorado state university have predicted an above-average year for tropical storms and hurricanes for 2009. it is therefore very timely to consider this resolution recognizing the importance of hurricane preparedness week as a tragedy of katrina in 2005 showed us, it is not just the

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Bart Gordon: strength of the storm that determines the destruction on the ground, just as important is the preparedness of the communities that are impacted. katrina took almost 1,500 lives and caused damages toting $81 billion. it was the -- one of the costliest natural disasters in

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Bart Gordon: the nation's history. however, katrina, a total of category 3 storm at landfall, was not an specialy powerful storm in fact, there were three other category 3 storms that struck the u.s. in 2005 but none of them caused the same level of damage and destruction. this is a sobering lesson in the importance of hurricane preparedness. it is vitally important that

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Bart Gordon: federal, state and local