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Angus King: “If you take us to sequestration, we have already said that is going to be 175,000.”

On the recordMarch 25, 2014
If you take us to sequestration, we have already said that is going to be 175,000.
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

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Senator King discusses the impact of sequestration on Marine Corps deployment numbers.

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