07/10/2012
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"There is no substitute for presence in our ability to project power."
"At $3.4 billion, the overall Department of Defense fiscal year 2017 budget request for the European Reassurance Initiative is four times the amount requested last year."
"I am very disappointed and, indeed, in some ways shocked, that the administration did not include any funding at all for this program."
"It is a small amount of money, and it has done a lot of good."