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Eliot Engel: “It's interesting because our congressional districts all have about 700,000 people each in them.”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
It's interesting because our congressional districts all have about 700,000 people each in them.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Highlights the scale of the Rohingya refugee crisis by comparing it to congressional districts.

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