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Eliot Engel: “I really think it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.”

On the recordOctober 28, 2013
I really think it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel criticizes the decision to cut off aid to Egypt.

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