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Gregory Meeks: I am concerned, what I don't want to go back to, as Professor Robert Pastor has said, though we all agree that we think…

On the recordNovember 30, 2011
I am concerned, what I don't want to go back to, as Professor Robert Pastor has said, though we all agree that we think it was a mistake and a setback to democracy with the election of Mr. Ortega.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks warns against repeating Cold War hostilities in response to Ortega's election.

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