| Speech notes. Hunter opened with brief remarks about how
the Armed Services Committee has kept politics out of its work ("The best
politics is no politics," he said.) He threw in a quick mention of
a couple of IAFF concerns (the Alternative Minimum Tax and insurance for
early retirees), and he touched on a plan to develop strategically located
disaster centers "so that the next time we have a Katrina type disaster
America is ready." However, most of the speech was Hunter's standard
stump speech and could have been delivered to any audience. He followed
the sunrise from the Arlington Cemetery to Rosecranz National Cemetery
in San Diego, discussing America's arsenal of democracy, China's cheating
on trade, and extending the border fence. On Iraq, Hunter said, "We
are being successful in Iraq if we continue to stand up the Iraqi military."
He closed reading excerpts from letters written by his father and by his
son. Hunter spoke for for a bit more than 18 1/2 minutes.
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