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Jim Risch: “With all due respect to my good friend from Maryland, this is exactly the right vehicle to bring this up. This is a…”

On the recordDecember 21, 2010
With all due respect to my good friend from Maryland, this is exactly the right vehicle to bring this up. This is a vehicle of trust, and it is a vehicle that puts some teeth in an otherwise toothless thing. As far as human rights versus this stolen property, this is very objective, it is hard, you can see it. The human rights violations I think are entirely different. They certainly are important. They certainly rise to as high a level, but this is objective.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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Dec 21, 2010

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The speaker discusses the importance of addressing human rights in relation to property issues.

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