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Jim Risch: “What is easy is to say no and push your chair away from the table if you cannot get them to where you need to be, and…”

On the recordJune 7, 2021
What is easy is to say no and push your chair away from the table if you cannot get them to where you need to be, and the JCPOA did not come anywhere close on that.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch critiques the ease of rejecting negotiations compared to the difficulty of reaching agreements.

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