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On the recordMarch 16, 2016
Thank you, Chairman Collins. Let me first thank you and our Ranking Member, Senator McCaskill, for holding a bipartisan hearing on this very, very important question.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse appreciates the bipartisan effort in addressing important issues in the hearing.

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