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On the recordMarch 6, 2012
How is the Department ensuring that critical, Government-owned and -operated facilities in the Nation's organic industrial base, like Rock Island Arsenal, are properly and strategically modernized so that these facilities have the equipment and skillsets they need to respond to wartime needs?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin questions the modernization of critical military facilities.

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