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On the recordMarch 27, 2003
Should there not be something in the supplemental if you have all of these hundreds of thousands of displaced Afghans?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
Source
congress.gov
Mar 27, 2003

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Senator Leahy questions the lack of aid for displaced Afghans.

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