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On the recordApril 19, 1994
Today we had a House-Senate conference on the State Department reauthorization, and the resolution was passed to call upon the President to lift the arms embargo so we finally have hopefully the weight of the House of Representatives and the Senate finally taking a stand and saying that the arms embargo ought to be lifted.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Discussing the House-Senate conference on State Department reauthorization and the arms embargo.

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