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Sam Brownback: “I must rise in opposition to certifying Mexico as complying with our drug-trafficking efforts... The fact is section 490…”

On the recordMarch 20, 1997
I must rise in opposition to certifying Mexico as complying with our drug-trafficking efforts... The fact is section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act requires that the President certify that Mexico has cooperated fully with the United States or taken adequate steps on its own to fight drug trafficking.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Opposing the certification of Mexico's compliance with drug-trafficking efforts during Senate debate.

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