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On the recordJanuary 20, 2011
Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York, made a big point of this when she -- in -- when she was an early leader on this. She met with some of these people who had these special skills, skills that we really needed on the -- in the war on terror.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand highlighted the importance of retaining qualified military personnel with critical language skills.

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