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Dick Durbin: What are we thinking? While our investments are on the decline in the United States, other nations are surging ahead.

On the recordApril 19, 2016
What are we thinking? While our investments are on the decline in the United States, other nations are surging ahead.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin questions U.S. investment decline compared to rising foreign investments.

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