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unusual facts about Senate Armed Services Committee



Executive Order 11850

On April 11, 2007 Joseph Benkert, a George W. Bush political appointee, informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Bush Presidency felt it could reinterpret the Executive Order and loosen the restriction on the use of gas as a riot control agent.

James Mates

During that time he had spent his 1981 summer vacation working as a researcher for John Tower on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

LaVena Johnson

Following a February 2007 KMOV news report on Johnson's death, an online petition addressed to the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee was launched.


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