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Chris Smith: the return rates are almost identical for non-Hague and Hague countries, just below 40 percent.

On the recordMay 8, 2013
the return rates are almost identical for non-Hague and Hague countries, just below 40 percent.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses the effectiveness of the Hague Convention on child abduction.

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