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Harry Reid: The fact is, it is very important that we do everything we can to ratify this treaty, and also the Nunn-Lugar money has…

On the recordJune 7, 1999
The fact is, it is very important that we do everything we can to ratify this treaty, and also the Nunn-Lugar money has been some of the money that has been most well spent. I do not know of any money we have spent in recent years that has done more good than that money spent to make sure the former Soviet Union is helped to retire some of their weapons of mass destruction. It has been a cooperative agreement that has worked well for the United States and worked well for Russia.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the importance of ratifying a treaty and the effectiveness of Nunn-Lugar funding.

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