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Patrick Leahy: “There will be legislation, and it would have been helpful to have had their testimony here as we prepare for it.”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
There will be legislation, and it would have been helpful to have had their testimony here as we prepare for it.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Chairman Leahy emphasizes the inevitability of upcoming legislation.

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