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On the recordJuly 25, 2018
It seems to me that anything that is large enough, even if there is no real direct nexus to national security issues...
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Schatz critiques the broad application of national security in economic arguments.

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