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Chris Murphy: “We should respond. We should be robust in that response, but we should not be expected to care about this as much as the…”

On the recordMay 5, 2014
We should respond. We should be robust in that response, but we should not be expected to care about this as much as the Russians do.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy advocates for a measured U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis.

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