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Jack Reed: “This amendment is not cut and run. This is not about a date certain. This is about getting the president to do the job…”

On the recordJune 18, 2006
This amendment is not cut and run. This is not about a date certain. This is about getting the president to do the job correctly, something he's failed to do for the last three years and three months.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed clarifies the intent behind a proposed amendment regarding troop redeployment from Iraq.

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