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Rand Paul: I think that there could not be an argument made that every dollar that we sent to Europe did not have some beneficial…

On the recordMay 21, 1997
I think that there could not be an argument made that every dollar that we sent to Europe did not have some beneficial effect. Quite possibly it did. But my point is that if that money from the taxpayer had not been sent, there is nothing that says it might not have been sent through the investors, but it depended on the political climate and what they did. I do not want to deemphasize that. That is the important reason why this foreign aid was not as harmful as it usually is, and it had some benefits, mainly because of the political climate.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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Discussing the impact of foreign aid to Europe.

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