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Defense Watch

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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

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The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Partisan Divide. House Democrats are praising the FY '11 defense authorization bill that cleared their chamber via a 229-186 vote last Friday. "This defense bill makes counterterrorism a priority, improving the ability of our military to protect themselves at home and abroad and providing them with the additional tools they need to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al Qaeda and its extremist allies," HASC Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) says.…

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