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On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
Well, it certainly would have been in the pattern, at least from the Libyan Government's actions up to and including that date, that they were not reticent to go ahead and use their economic power through their resource to oil to try to make companies make an argument back in their country in support of their ultimate view.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez highlights Libya's use of economic leverage in international relations.

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