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Jim Risch: “We go around the world criticizing other countries who don't obey their own laws that they're not nations of laws.”

On the recordJuly 29, 2013
We go around the world criticizing other countries who don't obey their own laws that they're not nations of laws.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch critiques the inconsistency in U.S. adherence to its own laws.

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