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Tom Lantos: I ask my colleagues to join me in urging President Boris Yeltsin to veto this misguided and dangerous initiative.

On the recordMarch 23, 1999
I ask my colleagues to join me in urging President Boris Yeltsin to veto this misguided and dangerous initiative.
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Tom Lantos
Source
congress.gov
Mar 23, 1999

Editor's note · Context

Lantos urges Congress to ask Yeltsin to veto media control legislation.

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