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On the recordDecember 15, 2015
What do the people of Egypt want? What does el-Sisi want? I mean, democracy as we know it doesn't generally work in one of those countries if they don't have the human rights, the protection of free speech, the religious freedom, the things that we believe in here.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho questions the applicability of democracy in Egypt without fundamental rights.

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