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Johnny Isakson: I appreciate your mentioning AGOA. For all of your benefit, the chairman and I offered an amendment to the bill we…

On the recordFebruary 6, 2012
I appreciate your mentioning AGOA. For all of your benefit, the chairman and I offered an amendment to the bill we passed earlier this week on the EXIM Bank, which we did not call up, but we did it to send the signal that America needs to renew the AGOA act quick, sooner rather than later.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson emphasizes the urgency of renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act.

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