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On the recordJuly 10, 2018
Why should we allow them to have loans from financial institutions when they go and spend $80 billion on Russian tanks to oppress their people?
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Albio Sires
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Sires questions U.S. financial support for Nicaragua amid its military spending.

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