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Chris Smith: in the last foreign operations appropriations bill, Frank Wolf, Trent Franks, Kay Granger, and I, and others, included…

On the recordDecember 9, 2013
in the last foreign operations appropriations bill, Frank Wolf, Trent Franks, Kay Granger, and I, and others, included language conditioning our aid on religious freedom.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith highlights bipartisan efforts to tie foreign aid to religious freedom conditions.

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