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On the recordMay 19, 2015
Mr. Chairman, I would just like to respond that there is no legislative program in the State Department like this. You can't transfer it there. They are not operative in these countries, so to say that this could be moved over--look, you were in professional organizations. This is legislator to legislator, judge to judge, and we need to keep it that way.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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