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...Dick Durbin, a Democratic senator who opposed granting the waiver for Mr Mattis, said he would “consider” one for Mr Austin once he got to know him....
...Vice-president Joe Biden’s team was also incorporated to prevent the kind of “parallel process” Dick Cheney used to circumvent the bureaucracy under George W. Bush....
...“When we are asking allies to do their fair share in dealing with this challenge we have to do our fair share,” said Ms Flournoy....
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