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On the recordJuly 11, 2016
Why should we continue that? Why should I go back to my district and talk to my constituents and say, 'We have to keep giving foreign aid.'?
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho questions the rationale behind continued foreign aid despite corruption.

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