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Brian Schatz: “We do funding for USAID and the State Department and a few…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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I Want to tell you something a little technical, but I think it gives away the whole game. So I'm the top Democrat on the Foreign Ops subcommittee. What does that mean? We do funding for USAID and the State Department and a few other things. When we do the appropriations process, we get letters from every other member. They're private letters, and a lot of people sign them and they say, could you please give … (04:04–04:09)

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