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Lindsey Graham: “If you looked out over a 10-year window and sequestration was fully implemented, we would have 232 ships left in the…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2013
If you looked out over a 10-year window and sequestration was fully implemented, we would have 232 ships left in the Navy a decade from now. Is that a wise thing?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham questions the implications of sequestration on Navy ship numbers.

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