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Jim Risch: “This issue ranks right up at the top. The United States cannot be wrong on this.”

On the recordNovember 30, 2011
This issue ranks right up at the top. The United States cannot be wrong on this.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch stresses the critical importance of the issue at hand.

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