In what is already shaping up to be a dramatic budget season in the United States, one more variable has emerged amid the shrinking spending plans, partisan bickering, threats of sequestration and the presidential election: congressional turnover. Eleven lawmakers who serve on the congressional defense committees or are leaders on defense issues have decided to retire, and at least a dozen others are in tight races to keep their seats in Congress or have lost in the primaries.
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