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On the recordJanuary 10, 2017
If you were Secretary of State and you were working to enforce U.S. sanctions and another CEO had a subsidiary set up and utilized to bypass American sanctions, would you call up that CEO or weigh in and say this is not a good idea, this undermines U.S. efforts to take on a serious terrorist threat or other malfeasance by some country in the world?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions Tillerson about enforcing U.S. sanctions against companies bypassing them.

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