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Steny Hoyer: And the $196.4 billion that the President wants to spend in Baghdad and Kabul is probably more than the budgets of those…

On the recordDecember 6, 2007
And the $196.4 billion that the President wants to spend in Baghdad and Kabul is probably more than the budgets of those States as well.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the financial implications of military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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