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On the recordMarch 25, 2014
From your point of view--each of you very quickly if you could--if you implemented that change of a 5 percent cost share, reducing it to 95 percent of the average, is that something the Services could absorb, and is that fair given our budget problems?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham questions military leaders on the impact of cost-sharing reforms.

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