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Jim Risch: “The United States is no longer the rich nation that we think of ourselves as being.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
The United States is no longer the rich nation that we think of ourselves as being.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Points out the U.S. financial status and its implications for U.N. funding.

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