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Jim Risch: “If you cut the State Department, I am going to have--you better buy me more bullets.”

On the recordJanuary 2, 2018
If you cut the State Department, I am going to have--you better buy me more bullets.
Said by
Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch highlights the importance of funding the State Department for effective military strategy.

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