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On the recordApril 28, 2015
I think of--I can't help to come to these--my thinking and to my positions without also looking at a nation that has been here for over 238 years, the United States of America.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks compares the U.S. integration efforts over 238 years to those of other nations in 20 years.

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