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Gregory Meeks: Gregory Meeks would not be sitting on this back row in this Foreign Affairs Committee if it wasn't for Donald Payne.

On the recordMarch 6, 2012
Gregory Meeks would not be sitting on this back row in this Foreign Affairs Committee if it wasn't for Donald Payne.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks credits Payne for his own position on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

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