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Maxine Waters: “Well, I understand that and I appreciate the gentleman correcting my thinking relative to where the money was to come…”

On the recordJune 28, 2005
Well, I understand that and I appreciate the gentleman correcting my thinking relative to where the money was to come from, because in the AIDS activist community, we were all under the impression that the PEPFAR fund alone would produce the $15 billion. But we will certainly take that information.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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