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On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
I think there were areas of military compensation, for example, where we said, 'Listen, we are a Nation at war...'
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Discussing inefficiencies in military compensation during wartime.

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