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Jim Himes: “I think it is a tribute to us as Americans that when Americans are suffering anywhere, we don't act stingy.”

On the recordNovember 12, 2013
I think it is a tribute to us as Americans that when Americans are suffering anywhere, we don't act stingy.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes praises American generosity in times of catastrophe.

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