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July 23, 2014
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey have no public or media events on their schedules.

Elissa Slotkin, performing the duties of the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant for Iraq and Iran Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State, testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the "Terrorist March in Iraq: The U.S. Response" at 10:30 a.m. EDT, 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, District of Columbia.