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Joe Manchin: “I don't envy the choices that Secretary Carter and the leadership has to make. There's nothing easy here.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
I don't envy the choices that Secretary Carter and the leadership has to make. There's nothing easy here.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin acknowledges the difficult decisions facing leadership regarding defense.

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