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Chris Coons: We cannot as a country go back to the sidelines and watch these already impoverished and unstable countries fall apart.

On the recordDecember 9, 2014
We cannot as a country go back to the sidelines and watch these already impoverished and unstable countries fall apart.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons calls for active U.S. involvement in crisis management.

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