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Jim Risch: “If you cannot get a handle on that, if it is endemic in the culture, it is a problem.”

On the recordNovember 16, 2021
If you cannot get a handle on that, if it is endemic in the culture, it is a problem.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch discusses the issue of corruption in nation-building efforts.

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