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Tom Cotton: “I find it hard to believe that a simple extension of it, changing nothing but the date, would, therefore, be a…”

On the recordMay 24, 2016
I find it hard to believe that a simple extension of it, changing nothing but the date, would, therefore, be a violation.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Senator Cotton questions the violation of the JCPOA by extending the Iran Sanctions Act.

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