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Tom Cotton: “Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, 200 years after the…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2015
Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine, your opinion is that, if this Congress proceeds with the sequestration cuts to our defense, we will see continued and growing Russian adventurism in the western hemisphere.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Cotton summarizes concerns about Russian expansion due to defense cuts.

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