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On the recordMarch 13, 2014
it is just not right that we are trying to balance our budgets, our Nation's budgets on the backs of our men and women in uniform and their families.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Criticism of budget cuts affecting military personnel and their families.

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