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Jim Risch: I can absolutely say I would not be in the U.S. Senate today without having been to Haiti in 1982.

On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
I can absolutely say I would not be in the U.S. Senate today without having been to Haiti in 1982.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch credits his Senate career to his experience in Haiti.

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