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On the recordJuly 23, 2019
I find the crisis eerily similar and the strained resources all too familiar that we put HHS and ORR in a situation to deal with.
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Tom Cole
Republican · Oklahoma

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Cole compares the current crisis to previous challenges faced in 2014.

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