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On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
The chairman and I have tried to conduct this committee as the most bipartisan committee in the Congress because we believe that foreign policy is bipartisan and differences need to stop at the water's edge.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel emphasizes the importance of bipartisanship in foreign policy.

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