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Congress

GOP Hopefuls Share Scant Views On Weapons Spending

Julie Samuel

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

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Republican presidential candidates touched briefly on Pentagon weapons-buying--including fixed-price contracts and Navy shipbuilding--during their Saturday night debate. Some observers, though,want to hear more from the GOP field on defense budgeting. Going into Saturday night’s national-security-focused debate, the eight Republican candidates for the presidential nomination had already shared some of their military views. Frontrunner Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, had called for supporting the military “with the best training, equipment, technology and infrastructure necessary to keep them in…

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