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Title

  • Washed out to sea : how Congress prioritizes beach pork over national needs

Summary

  • Senator Tom Coburn details just how beachfront communities, D.C. lobbyists, and Members of Congress have teamed up to "save" beaches with federally funded sand -- an effort that always results in additional requests for sand projects in the future. While bridges and levies collapse, Congress is earmarking funds to replenish beaches, subsidizing risky flood insurance, and bailing out homeowners who chose to build their houses on sand. These efforts, ironically, have had the unintended effect of inviting more people to develop and live in flood-prone coastal areas, thus creating and sustaining a vicious cycle of development and dependency.

Names

  • Coburn, Tom.
  • United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Created / Published

  • Washington, DC : Office of Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., 2009.

Headings

  • -  Beaches--Government policy--United States
  • -  Coastal zone management--Government policy--United States
  • -  Levees--Government policy--United States
  • -  Flood control--Government policy--United States

Notes

  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 3, 2014).
  • -  "United States Senate, 111th Congress, Congressional Oversight & Investigation Report,"
  • -  "May 2009."

Medium

  • 1 online resource ([43] pages) : illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HT392

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014500031

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Coburn, Tom, and United States Congress. Senate. Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations. Washed out to sea: how Congress prioritizes beach pork over national needs. Washington, DC: Office of Senator Tom Coburn, M.D, 2009. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014500031/.

APA citation style:

Coburn, T. & United States Congress. Senate. Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations. (2009) Washed out to sea: how Congress prioritizes beach pork over national needs. Washington, DC: Office of Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014500031/.

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Coburn, Tom, and United States Congress. Senate. Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations. Washed out to sea: how Congress prioritizes beach pork over national needs. Washington, DC: Office of Senator Tom Coburn, M.D, 2009. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2014500031/>.