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Tom Delay: “While it is my view that U.S. support for the HIPC initiative not be provided at the expense of an important sector of…”

On the recordJuly 21, 1999
While it is my view that U.S. support for the HIPC initiative not be provided at the expense of an important sector of our economy, the justification for IMF gold sales becomes even less compelling with the possibility that HIPC nations could be harmed--not helped--by such sales.
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Tom Delay
Republican · Texas
Source
congress.gov
Jul 21, 1999

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Concerns about the HIPC initiative and IMF gold sales.

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