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Chris Smith: “I would say that is a question of foreign policy and I defer to my State Department colleagues.”

On the recordJune 21, 2016
I would say that is a question of foreign policy and I defer to my State Department colleagues.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith defers to the State Department on foreign policy regarding Venezuela.

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