Howard McKeon,ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, questioned why, if the facility was designed for civilian purposes, Iran concealed its existence.
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On September 8, 2011, when Buck McKeon convened the first of his HouseArmedServicesCommittee hearings on the future of the military, no one much disputed the idea that the manifest destiny of the United States is to patrol the world.
Missouri's Ike Skelton, who's the top Democrat on the HouseArmedServicesCommittee, says the resolution's real aim is to confer on the war in Iraq the same kind of legitimacy the war in Afghanistan has enjoyed.