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Steny Hoyer: “The president's rationale for doing this, both publicly and in our meeting yesterday said, look, I said in the campaign…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2019
The president's rationale for doing this, both publicly and in our meeting yesterday said, look, I said in the campaign, I was going to get the troops out of the Middle East.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Hoyer comments on the president's justification for troop withdrawal from the Middle East.

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