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Chris Smith: “This is shocking, but it is also par for the course.”

On the recordJune 5, 2012
This is shocking, but it is also par for the course.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Describing the State Department's inadequate response to child abduction cases.

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