Navy may get a name change
Taken from Federal News Radio
Jodi Schneider, Senior Editor, American Banker
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What’s in a name? Well if you are the Marine Corps a name means recognition and equal footing with the other branches of the armed forces. House Bill HR 24 and it’s 400 hundred co-sponsors are proposing a change to the name of the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.
HR 24 is just seven votes shy of a 20-year record for the most co-sponsors on any House bill. Jodi Schneider, Senior Editor in the Washington Bureau of the American Banker, has details on this an what else is moving on the Hill.
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