Senate Banking Committee Issues Statement From Chairman Brown in Hearing on Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
October 16, 2021
October 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement as part of a hybrid hearing on Oct. 5, 2021, entitled "Afghanistan's Future: Assessing the National Security, Humanitarian and Economic Implications of the Taliban Takeover":
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In August, we finally ended twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Almost 125,000 people were airlifted out of the country in a fe . . .
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In August, we finally ended twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Almost 125,000 people were airlifted out of the country in a fe . . .