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Texas Congressman Chet Edwards, chairman of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, talks with U.S. Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army's chief of staff, after a hearing in the Capitol in Washington D.C., May 6, 2009.

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Texas Congressman Chet Edwards, chairman of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, talks with U.S. Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army's chief of staff, after a hearing in the Capitol in Washington D.C., May 6, 2009.

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