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On the recordNovember 16, 2015
It was almost 6 years ago to the day that I introduced the Conflict Minerals Trade Act, which was designed to help stop trade in conflict minerals that were sustaining the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott reflects on the introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act and its purpose.

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