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Grace Meng: “This has been a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions.”

On the recordMay 19, 2015
This has been a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions.
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Grace Meng
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Meng describes the scale of the humanitarian crisis following the earthquake in Nepal.

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