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Tom Carper: “As you know, Madam Secretary, they have lived in too many cases lives of misery, and we are complicit in that misery…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2018
As you know, Madam Secretary, they have lived in too many cases lives of misery, and we are complicit in that misery because of our addiction to narcotics.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses the plight of people from the Northern Triangle and U.S. complicity in their suffering.

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