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On the recordDecember 7, 2000
This was not a case where there was a concern the embassies were all going bankrupt? The embassy in London or in Moscow or, heaven forbid, in Dublin, might be in bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York? That is not the case?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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