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Eliot Engel: “You need to back up those lines but you also need to be consistent.”

On the recordApril 26, 2017
You need to back up those lines but you also need to be consistent.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel stressed the importance of consistency in U.S. foreign policy.

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