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On the recordJune 27, 2002
I will save my stump speech, but I would just mention that there is one site we had a hearing on yesterday that is still, the campus of the American University, that 84 years after World War II we are still cleaning up chemical weapons. I think there is lot we can do.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon

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Discussing the ongoing cleanup of chemical weapons at the American University campus.

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