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Bob Menendez: “I hope that that is a sense of consultation because I know I would like to tell my friends at the State Department that…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
I hope that that is a sense of consultation because I know I would like to tell my friends at the State Department that, for me, speaking as one Senator sitting on this committee for better part of 10 years now, that there is a difference between notification and consultation.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez emphasizes the importance of consultation over mere notification from the State Department.

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