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Chris Dodd: “If the leader would yield further, I appreciate him showing some patience here. This is, I think, a very good idea. By…”

On the recordApril 14, 1999
If the leader would yield further, I appreciate him showing some patience here. This is, I think, a very good idea. By the way, I am a cosponsor of the proposal here to do this for our service men and women. I had the pleasure of being with a group of them last Friday and Saturday at Ramstein Air Force Base and flew with a crew on a C-130, a 4-hour flight from Germany down to Macedonia. And they were terrific young men and women. In the cockpit were men and women. The navigator was a woman. There were two pilots, the engineers, the crew.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing support for a proposal benefiting service members after visiting Ramstein Air Force Base.

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