Patrick Leahy actually said...

The Congress added the Chief of the National Guard Bureau as a statutory member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because we believed the President needed your best military advice.

Context

Leahy explains the rationale for including the Chief of the National Guard Bureau in the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

03/15/2016

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