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Yvette Clarke: How do you plan to propose international standards if there are so many different individualized systems that need…

On the recordMay 7, 2014
How do you plan to propose international standards if there are so many different individualized systems that need specialized mitigation?
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Clarke questions the feasibility of proposing international standards for diverse systems.

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