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Mixed Support For Anti-MEADS Push In HASC

Julie Samuel

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

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House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Democrats were not united on Monday behind a potential push to block the Pentagon from continuing a troubled tri-nation missile defense program. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), ranking member of the HASC Strategic Forces subcommittee, said he hasn’t “come to a firm conclusion” on whether to support a potential amendment on the Medium Extended Air and Missile Defense System (MEADS). Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), a member of the missile-defense focused subpanel, said last month that one…

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