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Jim Risch: “I do not know how you explain to the American people that we are paying utility bills for people in the West Bank when…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2017
I do not know how you explain to the American people that we are paying utility bills for people in the West Bank when people in America cannot pay their utility bills.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Senator Risch questions the rationale behind U.S. financial support for the West Bank.

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