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On the recordJanuary 20, 2016
In March 2015, then-Secretary of the Army McHugh ruled that the Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery did not have authority for his 2002 decision to allow WASPs to be inurned at Arlington.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand references a ruling affecting honors for female pilots at Arlington.

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