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On the recordJune 6, 2007
despite the fact that this might be a complicated and extraordinary and difficult thing for the President to do, we have every confidence in the President on this side that he will be able to come up at least with some criteria that he at least thinks is objective and report in his own language, using his own complicated or simplistic criteria, whether or not he thinks corruption is prevalent in the various provinces in Afghanistan. We are leaving that up to him. And we will fully understand that in any language that he presents it to us, it will come from him, and that will be his determination. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Gary Ackerman
New York

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Discussing the President's responsibility to report on corruption in Afghanistan.

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