“They tried to rebuild their radar because they can't see anything. We waited until it was almost built and then we hit it.”

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Norman D. Dicks: “I want to associate myself with the gentleman's comments and the chairman's comments on this amendment. We're talking…”

On the recordJune 7, 2012
I want to associate myself with the gentleman's comments and the chairman's comments on this amendment. We're talking here about homeland security, and we have been hit before. And we can't have a meat-ax, across-the-board approach. We would certainly oppose it if the other side was attempting to do it, and we have to have the same kind of discipline on our side. I suggest, in good faith, to the gentleman from Colorado, if you've got all these reports and all these things about various programs that aren't functioning, offer amendments on each of those programs, and then we can vote on them and make a discerning decision. But just going across the board, I think, is the easy way out, and I urge rejection of the gentleman's amendment.
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Jun 7, 2012

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