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Speaker: Barney Frank, U.S. Representative, Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts; Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
Presider: Gordon M. Adams, Professor of International Relations, American University
November 14, 2011
Congressman Barney Frank discusses the Obama administration's strategy and current level of spending on national defense.
This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Economics.
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