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SKELTON AND BUYER URGE U.S. NAVY TO NAME SHIP IN HONOR OF THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
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Capitol Hill Press Releases
12-11-2007
For Immediate Release Skelton and Buyer Urge U.S. Navy To Name Ship In
Honor of The Marquis De Lafayette Contact: Loren Dealy 202-225-2539 December
11, 2007 Washington, DC - House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton
(D-MO) and Congressman Steve Buyer (R-IN) have asked the U.S. Navy to name
the next United States warship in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette. In
a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Donald Winter, Skelton and Buyer
wrote: "As you know, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, commonly
known as the Marquis de Lafayette, was an ...
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