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Jim Risch: “The more dialogue and debate on these matters of life and death, I think the better for all of us.”

On the recordJune 27, 2011
The more dialogue and debate on these matters of life and death, I think the better for all of us.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Senator Risch advocates for open discussion on critical military decisions.

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