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Maxine Waters: “And you know, we've been working on debt relief. We just got, finally, the World -- World Bank and the International…”

On the recordJanuary 11, 2010
And you know, we've been working on debt relief. We just got, finally, the World -- World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to complete the debt relief for $1 billion.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Discussing efforts to secure debt relief for Haiti to aid in recovery.

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