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On the recordSeptember 25, 2017
We as a country--these are my words, not anyone else's--are complicit in many of the worst things that are happening there.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy states U.S. complicity in Yemen's humanitarian crisis.

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