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Schumer Won't Say If He'd Support Hagel for SecDef

'I'd have to study his record. I'm not going to comment until the president makes a nomination.'

December 23, 2012

Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) declined to say whether he would support the potential nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to Secretary of Defense in a Sunday interview with Meet the Press.

"I'd have to study his record," Schumer said. "I'm not going to comment until the president makes a nomination."

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