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Conyers, Paul Press NDAA Conferees to Accept Accelerated Drawdown

December 7, 2011Commentary

Reps. John Conyers, Ron Paul, Jim McGovern, Walter Jones, and Barbara Lee sent a letter to the NDAA conferees pressing them to accept the Senate Merkley language pressing for an accelerated drawdown from Afghanistan.

The letter is here.

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