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GOP to Focus on Spending

Feeling increasing heat from their base for living too high on the hog, Republican Senators are putting in place an election-year strategy to try to reclaim the fiscal discipline brand that helped the GOP win and maintain its majority for more than a decade.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.
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