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Ron Johnson: “We could have done a lot of protection with just a small…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson Questioning Witnesses at HSGAC Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 27:04

This is, from my standpoint, this is something that needs to be addressed. And if government's got to pay for it again. That's why I go back to the old stimulus. $800 billion. We could have done a lot of protection with just a small little fraction of that [$800 billion stimulus]. And it's just a shame. It's just unconscionable we didn't. I can just add to that quickly. We have seen just a handful of utilities move forward with EMP mitigation. (27:04–27:09)

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Asserts that a small fraction of the $800 billion stimulus could have been used for infrastructure protection.

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