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On the recordMarch 21, 2017
It is not surprising we find our Armed Forces are currently under strain, but the evidence is mounting that it is not necessarily a decade and a half of war that is straining our military, but instead, a self-inflicted congressional wound, called 'sequestration.'
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin attributes military strain to congressional budget cuts rather than prolonged war.

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