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On the recordFebruary 23, 2021
My concern is that, as we are looking at other places of the world, in our own backyard we have got--starting to get a heavy influence of Russians, but mainly Chinese.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Cuellar expresses concern over increasing Chinese and Russian influence in Latin America.

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