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Most pieces of legislation start with a series of customary “findings.” But the findings section of the Strengthening The Resiliency of Our Nation on the Ground (STRONG) Act of 2012 reads like a biblical warning.
It points out that:
• There have been 130 separate billion-dollar-plus disasters in the U.S. in the past 30 years (14 in 2011 alone).