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On the recordMarch 19, 2012
What can you tell us about successes to address corruption? And do you believe that these efforts will actually address corruption, especially the kind of predatory corruption that feeds on common people sufficiently to allow the Afghan government to function after 2014?
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Madeleine Bordallo
Democratic · Guam

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Bordallo questions the effectiveness of anti-corruption efforts in Afghanistan.

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