I can absolutely say I would not be in the U.S. Senate today without having been to Haiti in 1982.
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
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Risch credits his Senate career to his experience in Haiti.
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