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Dick Durbin: “If I could ask the Senator to give me a little more information, should this President, or any future President, decide…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1998
If I could ask the Senator to give me a little more information, should this President, or any future President, decide that another nation is guilty of terrorism against the citizens of the United States, and he seeks to apply sanctions against that country, would that President be precluded from including in those sanctions a prohibition against shipping food and medicine?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the implications of sanctions on food and medicine in relation to terrorism.

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