Senate Budget Committee Chairman Whitehouse Issues Opening Statement at Hearing on Climate Risk, Insurance
June 14, 2024
June 14, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following opening statement from a hearing dated June 5, 2024, entitled "Riskier Business: How Climate is Already Challenging Insurance Markets":
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Members of the Committee, witnesses, guests. More than a year has passed since our hearing on climate havoc in the insurance industry upending housing markets, mortgage markets, and local proper . . .
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Members of the Committee, witnesses, guests. More than a year has passed since our hearing on climate havoc in the insurance industry upending housing markets, mortgage markets, and local proper . . .