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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Senator Daniel Inouye greets Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta shortly before his testimony on the fiscal year 2013 budget at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2012.

Senator Inouye greets Secretary Panetta

Chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Senator Daniel Inouye greets Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta shortly before his testimony on the fiscal year 2013 budget at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2012.

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