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Mazie Hirono: “It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign…”

On the recordApril 12, 2011
It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Hirono clarifies that the East-West Center is not part of foreign aid.

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