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Ed Markey: “Do you think it would be helpful if there was a larger U.S. presence in the other two countries given what has now…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2014
Do you think it would be helpful if there was a larger U.S. presence in the other two countries given what has now happened in Liberia, that if we ramped up a larger U.S. presence in the other two countries, that it could make a big difference in telescoping the timeframe that it would take in order to successfully replicate what has happened in Liberia?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey questions the benefit of increasing U.S. presence in response to the Ebola crisis.

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