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Congress

Arms-Control Advocates Push Against East Coast Missile Site

Julie Samuel

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

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Arms-control advocates are sounding alarms about a potential East Coast missile-defense site, as lawmakers prepare to negotiate the proposal as soon as tomorrow. Members of the House and Senate armed services committees are slated to convene a conference committee tomorrow that will combine the versions of the fiscal year 2013 defense authorization bill passed by each chamber, with the goal of having a finished product by next Monday. The legislation the House passed in May authorizes $100 million for beginning…

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Army

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