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On the recordDecember 18, 2020
I would ask the question through the Chair. Isn't it true that this bill that we are promoting, which just passed the House unanimously on a bipartisan basis, also protects the 6,700 students here in the United States with student visas from being forced to return to Hong Kong when our State Department is warning Americans it is unsafe for them to travel to Hong Kong? Is that not true?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 18, 2020

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