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Jeff Fortenberry: We would not sit idly by and passively underwrite this pernicious form of human trafficking known as child conscription.

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
We would not sit idly by and passively underwrite this pernicious form of human trafficking known as child conscription.
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Jeff Fortenberry
Republican · Nebraska

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Fortenberry condemns child conscription as a form of human trafficking.

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