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Patrick Leahy: “If we have an individual able to come up with $1.8 billion, shouldn't we be doing more than $32 million?”

On the recordMay 6, 2013
If we have an individual able to come up with $1.8 billion, shouldn't we be doing more than $32 million?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy questions the disparity in funding for polio eradication efforts.

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