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Ben Nelson: “Can you explain what happened, what you are doing to fix this problem, and whether these test failures affect the…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
Can you explain what happened, what you are doing to fix this problem, and whether these test failures affect the deployed interceptors?
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Ben Nelson

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Senator Nelson questions General O'Reilly about missile defense test failures.

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