WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)-a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)-led her fellow SASC Democratic colleagues in urging Committee Chairman Wicker to hold a hearing to investigate the Trump Administration's failures to support our servicemembers who are carrying out indefinite extended deployments in the illegal, disastrous Iran war that President Trump cannot seem to end. In a letter to Chairman Wicker, the Senators show how this Administration's failure to end this war has taken a widespread physical, emotional and mental toll on troops deployed to the region, even beyond the disturbing conditions aboard ...