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Vern Buchanan: “If you are not going to do it, tell me you are not going to do it, and we will give the business to China.”

On the recordMarch 16, 2011
If you are not going to do it, tell me you are not going to do it, and we will give the business to China.
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Vern Buchanan
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing the lack of progress in trade negotiations with Colombia.

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