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On the recordApril 30, 2012
if it's good enough for the military, I can't see why we have to go spend all of those dollars and research and develop new things when the wheel has been invented already.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Arguing for the use of existing military technology to save costs.

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