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Jeff Merkley: “Do we have a major challenge as a Nation in which we are spending too much money on foreign wars and foreign bases…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
Do we have a major challenge as a Nation in which we are spending too much money on foreign wars and foreign bases rather than on domestic infrastructure and domestic education?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions national spending priorities between foreign wars and domestic education.

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