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Gregory Meeks: As I said, we should not look to reignite some of the disunity and disruption that America First or America only…

On the recordJuly 13, 2023
As I said, we should not look to reignite some of the disunity and disruption that America First or America only promoted. We don't need to call out in an amendment our strongest of allies. This amendment calls out and criticizes and denounces Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Denmark, France, and many others in the middle of war. I surely would not want to be fighting a war in a bunker saying we are allies and then someone is denouncing me. That is not the way allies stick together and fight an unjust war that is currently taking place in Ukraine where you have Russia taking land from a sovereign country.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York
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Jul 13, 2023

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