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On the recordJune 12, 2012
Last month, at the full Committee mark-up of the fiscal year 2013 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill, this Committee cut $33 million in Foreign Military Financing for Pakistan to protest the 33-year prison sentence for Doctor Shakil Afridi.
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California

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Feinstein discusses funding cuts to Pakistan in response to Afridi's sentencing.

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