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Bill Lee: How can we justify cutting our development assistance programs and eliminating this program, which, of course, is going…

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
How can we justify cutting our development assistance programs and eliminating this program, which, of course, is going to do nothing but create more despair and instability in an already fragile nation?
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee

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Questioning the rationale behind cuts to development assistance in Africa.

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