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Eliot Engel: “I think a very good case can be made that we are better off being there.”

On the recordOctober 12, 2011
I think a very good case can be made that we are better off being there.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel argues for U.S. presence in the U.N. to maintain influence.

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