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Freshman Republicans Urge Troop Increase

By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 15, 2009, 4:51 p.m.

House Republicans continued to press President Barack Obama this week to heed the advice of the top commander in Afghanistan and send an additional 40,000 troops to the country.

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