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On the recordJuly 22, 2014
We expect to spend, in the next 10 years, some $15 billion rebuilding the B61 bomb that nobody knows what to do with.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Garamendi highlights budget choices between military spending and icebreaker construction.

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