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Joe Biden: “Wouldn't the Senator acknowledge the example he just gave has nothing to do with any commitment that is being undertaken…”

On the recordApril 28, 1998
Wouldn't the Senator acknowledge the example he just gave has nothing to do with any commitment that is being undertaken by the expansion of NATO now? It is unrelated. We may or may not through the program which the opponents of expansion constantly point to--the Partnership for Peace, as what we should have stuck with--we may or may not do that. But passage of the expansion of NATO for these three countries in no way affects the point of whether or not we give assistance to Romania or we give assistance to any other country questioned. Is that not correct?
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Discussing NATO expansion and its implications during a Senate debate.

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