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Ryan To Meet With Defense Industry

Julie Samuel

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

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Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) plans to meet with the defense industry today, when analysts will be listening for any details on his and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s plans for the Pentagon budget. Ryan is scheduled to attend a “defense-industry roundtable” at the Partnership for Defense Innovation in Fayetteville, N.C., according to the Romney campaign. This partnership, which has offices near Fort Bragg Army base, supports development of new military technologies. Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck did not…

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