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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordApril 17, 2013
I wanted to ask, to follow up on Senator Shaheen's question on sequestration, and particularly wanted to ask about the concept of a hollow force.
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Kelly Ayotte
Republican · New Hampshire
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Ayotte raises concerns about the implications of sequestration on military readiness.

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