I am grateful to Dean Kagan for her leadership on military recruiting, as well as the myriad of other positive impacts that she had on my law school experience. I would not be serving today-- Referring to the military-- without it. She has earned my most heartfelt support for her nomination.
Leahy discusses a letter from a military officer supporting Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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