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Jim Risch: If you do publish this and say, look, this is what these bad guys did, and then don't do anything about it, it…

On the recordMay 19, 2009
If you do publish this and say, look, this is what these bad guys did, and then don't do anything about it, it doesn't--it's not the kind of thing that helps in the future.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch argues that merely publishing wrongdoings without action is counterproductive.

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