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Neil Abercrombie: “I ask the gentleman, would it be fair to characterize some of the discussion that took place in the Committee on Armed…”

On the recordJune 9, 1999
I ask the gentleman, would it be fair to characterize some of the discussion that took place in the Committee on Armed Services since 1993 as addressing some of the very problems that the gentleman has outlined in that chart?
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Questioning discussions in the Committee on Armed Services regarding outlined problems.

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