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Lindsey Graham: “Would it seriously compromise the ability to defend this Nation?”

On the recordApril 26, 2016
Would it seriously compromise the ability to defend this Nation?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham asks if sequestration would harm national defense.

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