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Lamar Alexander: “I am here today to strongly recommend and respectfully recommend to the committee that it approve the President's…”

On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
I am here today to strongly recommend and respectfully recommend to the committee that it approve the President's nomination of Bill Hagerty as Ambassador to Japan.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Senator Alexander supports Bill Hagerty's nomination as Ambassador to Japan.

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