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In a brief stop at the Times-Democrat, he spoke on current issues in national politics.
The rapid changes in Eastern Europe “are very encouraging, but we must keep up our guard. I don’t think we can let hostile countries be in a position of imposing their ideas on us, as we’ve avoided for about the last 50 years,” he said.
The so-called peace dividend might have implications in Virginia, which is home to several military bases, said Slaughter.
Catastrophic health care insurance has long been one of Slaughter’s primary concerns. He helped lead the defeat of a bill last year that, he says, “was not funded equitably.”
About the recent Social Security
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