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Edward M. Kennedy: “I fail to see the application of this rigor in your 2010 shipbuilding request.”

On the recordJune 15, 2009
I fail to see the application of this rigor in your 2010 shipbuilding request.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy questions the rigor in the Navy's shipbuilding budget process.

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