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On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
shouldn't we be closing or eliminating that excess capacity before we talk about another round of BRAC, which, in many ways, has been extraordinarily costly?
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal questions the need for BRAC without addressing excess capacity first.

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