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Jon Tester: “So, the question becomes for me, and I think for Senator Portman and anybody else who would be here off this Committee…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2014
So, the question becomes for me, and I think for Senator Portman and anybody else who would be here off this Committee, what happened?
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester questions the breakdown in communication regarding past issues.

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