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Eliot Engel: “The threshold question we need to ask today is not whether we are on track to rebuild Haiti to a pre-earthquake…”

On the recordOctober 8, 2013
The threshold question we need to ask today is not whether we are on track to rebuild Haiti to a pre-earthquake standard, but, rather, if we are helping to build Haiti back better.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel emphasizes the need for improved reconstruction efforts in Haiti.

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