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Corker, McCain: Don't Quit On Nuke Modernization
Joe Gould, Defense News 4:03 p.m. EDT June 27, 2016
WASHINGTON — Two top GOP senators are urging President Obama to stick with nuclear modernization plans, arguing he is bound by longstanding commitments he made to Congress.
The letter from Senate Armed Services Chair John McCain, R-Ariz., and Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, made the plea to Obama in the wake of his speech at Hiroshima and recent comments from White House official Ben Rhodes at an Arms Control Association event that suggest those plans may be rethought.
“We are concerned Mr. Rhodes' comments may presage efforts, such as a rumored ‘Blue Ribbon’ panel, to review the modernization program you promised to fund for as long as you are president, which would obviously contradict your personal promise to the Senate and military necessity,” Corker and McCain wrote in the June 17 letter.
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/06/27/corker-mccain-dont-quit-nuke-modernization/86439404/
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