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On the recordSeptember 25, 2017
I don't know, sometimes I get nervous when I hear the word modernization because I don't know what that means.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Meeks expresses concern over the implications of modernization in the State Department.

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