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On the recordApril 23, 2018
this is a country, very much like Venezuela, that should be a donor. That should be a country, because of its vast natural resources, it should be assisting others and yet because of poor governance, bad leadership, authoritarian leadership and human rights violations, it is what it is.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley criticizes the governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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