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Patrick Leahy: “I'm concerned that the budget projects only 285 ships by fiscal year 2017 when every study I've seen... have said that…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2012
I'm concerned that the budget projects only 285 ships by fiscal year 2017 when every study I've seen... have said that we need a minimum of between 300 and 315 ships.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy questions the adequacy of the projected Navy ship count.

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