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Joe Manchin: “Sitting back and being reactive and then debating it for six months hoping for on-hundred percent consensus among 28…”

On the recordMay 20, 2015
Sitting back and being reactive and then debating it for six months hoping for on-hundred percent consensus among 28 countries is not a formula for success with Vladimir Putin.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin criticizes slow responses to Russian aggression.

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