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I would expect Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders notwithstanding that most of the political energy

in the next year and a quarter in the presidential election was going to be to push to the right

in defense terms and that we will see major candidates of both parties advocating at least

modest increases in defense spending, recognizing that threats have gone up a bit and we haven't

even talked about Russia and Ukraine.

And that is Chairman Graniteke to say we don't have to be so rushed in our concern about

bringing down the deficit as to ignore what might be needed for broader national security

purposes.

Now in that suggestion we're going to have a 2017 or 2017 equivalent of the Reagan buildup

but I think we will see modest real growth proposed by either parties presidential candidate

once we get through it.

The next six weeks are interesting in Washington because of the looming sequester and frankly

I'm a little surprised that there hasn't been a better effort by the two branches of government

responsible for this to make sure we don't sequester defense at this juncture.

I think it would be a big, big mistake.

I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast August 22nd 2015.

That was Michael Handel and you just heard.

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