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On the recordJuly 17, 2013
This committee does a lot of things here, but most of them are irrelevant. But it seems to me that we ought to be dealing with GSP if we are serious about our relationship with the rest of the world.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott criticizes the committee's focus and urges action on the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

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