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On the recordMarch 21, 2016
The price the Administration paid for the quota reform included a commitment which it achieved to seek to eliminate the systemic exemption...
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters discusses the trade-offs made in the IMF quota reform negotiations.

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