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On the recordMarch 11, 2014
I have enormous respect, as you can see, for both Assistant Secretary Brownfield and Ambassador CdeBaca, but neither of you have addressed what you are going to do, what are you doing with regard to this--there aren't even words to express what just happened in Nigeria and Boko Haram.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York

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Lowey expresses concern over the response to Boko Haram's actions in Nigeria.

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