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Kelly Ayotte: do you believe it is appropriate to be paying taxpayers' dollars to a Russian company that is arming Assad and enabling…

On the recordFebruary 8, 2012
do you believe it is appropriate to be paying taxpayers' dollars to a Russian company that is arming Assad and enabling his murder of over 8,000 civilians?
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Kelly Ayotte
Republican · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Ayotte questions the ethics of U.S. funding to a Russian company aiding Assad's regime.

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