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Mike Turner: “The proposed $603 billion only represents a mere 3.2 percent increase compared to the Fiscal Year 2018 funding levels…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2017
The proposed $603 billion only represents a mere 3.2 percent increase compared to the Fiscal Year 2018 funding levels projected in President Obama's last budget request.
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Mike Turner
Republican · Ohio

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Critiques the proposed military budget as insufficient for national defense needs.

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