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Tony Thurmond: “On behalf of Senators Snowe and Cleland, I offer an amendment which has been approved by the Armed Services Committee…”

On the recordJune 19, 1998
On behalf of Senators Snowe and Cleland, I offer an amendment which has been approved by the Armed Services Committee and that would require the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a report on the objectives of any contingency operation involving the deployment of 500 or more U.S. military forces when the President requests funds for those operations.
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Tony Thurmond
California

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Introducing an amendment regarding reporting requirements for military operations.

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