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On the recordMarch 27, 2003
I have heard all these crocodile tears being shed here this morning about the straitjacket, as it were, that the Defense Department is being put in.
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Robert C. Byrd

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Byrd expresses skepticism about claims of funding constraints on the Defense Department.

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