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Joe Lieberman: “This amendment calls on the Secretary of Defense to conduct a thorough study of alternative force structures for our…”

On the recordJune 25, 1996
This amendment calls on the Secretary of Defense to conduct a thorough study of alternative force structures for our armed services. What are we talking about? We are really talking here about providing the members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, most of whom are cosponsors of this amendment, and then in turn the full Congress, with the information to help us answer fundamental questions about our future national security.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Discussing an amendment related to a study of alternative force structures for the armed services.

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