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 early next year, to Afghanistan.
Leahy discusses the deployment of Vermont National Guard soldiers to Afghanistan.
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I just want to thank you, Mr. Secretary. I know the final spending package for fiscal year 2022 saw a responsible, and I believe very transparent, return to congressionally directed spending.
I couldn’t help but think, was this aimed for this hearing or aimed for a political campaign? What are some of these senators doing? Making sound bites for their political campaigns, some of them running for president?
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