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On the recordApril 19, 2016
What can be done to both reform the finances and address the short-term crisis? And is that a very dire crisis literally weeks away?
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal questions the urgency of addressing Puerto Rico's financial crisis.

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