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On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strategy, that they should not be made, then we also have an obligation to come up with the money so that we don't make them.
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Stressing the responsibility to find funding if cuts threaten national security.

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