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Joe Manchin: “I cannot figure why that condition was even put in if it was not intended to be kept or met.”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2016
I cannot figure why that condition was even put in if it was not intended to be kept or met.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin questions NATO's commitment to defense spending targets.

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