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Man with a mission.

Publication: Israel Diamonds
Date: Sunday, April 1 2001

What drives Tony P. Hall of Dayton, Ohio, the U.S. congressman who has become the self-appointed nemesis of the diamond and jewelry industries? What inspired him to pick up the banner in the fight against conflict diamonds?

In Congress Hall represents Ohio's Third District. He serves on the Committee on Rules and is the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House of Representatives. He is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Hunger and he is a founder and one of two House members on the steering committee of the C

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