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On the recordNovember 16, 2022
I mean, after that hearing--I knew what was going on in those mines, I raised it a number of times--but until I heard from two DR Congolese leaders, including a Jesuit priest, it just--how could this President be complicit in this? And I believe he is, and I think that we have got to follow that up very aggressively, this abuse of children.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith questions presidential complicity in child abuse linked to mining in DR Congo.

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