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Blue Dogs Face $52B Test

GI Entitlement Creates Fiscal and Political Challenge

By Steven T. Dennis
Roll Call Staff
May 12, 2008, Midnight

Those fiscally conservative Blue Dogs promise they aren’t going to roll over this time, even if it means voting against a popular election-year package of veterans benefits and angering House leaders.

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May 23, 2012

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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