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Robert C. Byrd: “The United States should not, I believe, be digging more deeply into our own pockets, than are other nations with equal…”

On the recordJuly 2, 1992
The United States should not, I believe, be digging more deeply into our own pockets, than are other nations with equal interest in establishing democracy and market-based economies in the states of the former Soviet Union, digging into theirs.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Jul 2, 1992

Editor's note · Context

Opposing a bill providing aid to the former Soviet states.

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