01/30/2012
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"I'm not quite sure how I see you doing this--how you get away from no more cross-leveling, and the rating."
"We've written to you on the question of more transparency of where equipment goes--we appropriate the money for it, and we kind of lose sight as it comes off the assembly line, where it goes."
"I am not convinced that just providing bodies, small numbers of police bodies and certain selected few departments who are fortunate enough to win the lottery is necessarily an effective crime-fightin..."
"I know you both know the 86th Mountain Brigade, that's upward of 1,800 very proud citizen soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard are going to begin a deployment, either end of this year or earl..."