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On the recordApril 18, 2016
What measures do you use on the other half of the investment? So it is security, it is prosperity, it is democracy, democratization, transparency?
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine questions the metrics for evaluating investments in security, prosperity, and democracy.

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