Senate Budget Committee Chairman Whitehouse Issues Opening Statement at Hearing on Water Scarcity
June 10, 2024
June 10, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following opening statement from a hearing dated May 22, 2024, entitled "Droughts, Dollars, and Decisions: Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate":
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Ranking Member Grassley, members of the committee, witnesses, and guests, welcome. Today we address how climate change is making droughts more severe, magnifying so many of the other risks we ha . . .
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Ranking Member Grassley, members of the committee, witnesses, and guests, welcome. Today we address how climate change is making droughts more severe, magnifying so many of the other risks we ha . . .