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On the recordSeptember 12, 2018
If fully implemented and enforced, U.S. sanctions can be an effective foreign policy tool to pressure dangerous rogue regimes including those in Iran, in North Korea, in Russia, as well as those in our own hemisphere, like my native homeland of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen emphasizes the importance of U.S. sanctions as a foreign policy tool against rogue regimes.

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