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Jim Risch: “Anybody who thinks this is not important just needs to look back some years ago when the Chinese and the Japanese had a…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
Anybody who thinks this is not important just needs to look back some years ago when the Chinese and the Japanese had a spat and the Chinese just flat cut off Japan's access to this material.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch emphasizes the importance of securing access to critical materials.

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