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Cory Booker: The amount of human suffering and misery. The amount of famine and dislocation is agonizing and painful.

On the recordJuly 25, 2017
The amount of human suffering and misery. The amount of famine and dislocation is agonizing and painful.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker highlights the severe humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.

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