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'We can't do enough': Lawmakers flooded by evacuation pleas

by Lisa MascaroKevin Freking
| August 27, 2021 11:30 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tissue holders sit atop the conference table where the congressman's aides field frantic requests from constituents desperate for help in getting friends and loved ones out of Afghanistan before it's too late.

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