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McCaskill & Blunt
12:29 pm
Wed November 9, 2011

McCaskill and Blunt give updates on veterans issues

Credit (Combined photos - both by UPI/Bill Greenblatt)
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo (l) and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, (D-Mo.) says she’s cautiously optimistic that management problems at Arlington National Cemetery have been solved.

The democratic senator visited the cemetery on Friday to assess changes made there following the revelation that thousands of graves were mislabeled or unmarked.

McCaskill co-sponsored a law that requires congressional oversight of the burial grounds, and requires cemetery officials to submit a grave site analysis. She says that report will be delivered December 22nd and so far, is 86 percent complete.

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