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Dick Durbin: “I ask through the Chair one last question. How often do we have an opportunity to change the law and to help these…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2005
I ask through the Chair one last question. How often do we have an opportunity to change the law and to help these soldiers and their families? How many times do we get a chance in the Senate during the course of the year to consider the Department of Defense authorization bill or another bill that might give us a chance to help those families and to rectify this injustice which the Senator from Florida has pointed out and which I think every Member on both sides of the aisle would like to change?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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