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On the recordJanuary 27, 1994
I want to address what seems to be a central premise of the argument he makes here on the floor, because I disagree with it very sharply. He said that with the end of the cold war, the purposes of the National Endowment for Democracy no longer exist. ... I submit just the contrary; just the contrary. The purposes for which the National Endowment for Democracy was established have heightened and intensified with the end of the cold war because the triumph of democracy in large parts of Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe is far from ensured.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland
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Sarbanes discusses the relevance of the National Endowment for Democracy post-cold war.

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