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On the recordMay 5, 2010
Via the Second Chance Act, the Department of Justice is requesting $140 million to educate and mentor terrorists, pedophiles and career criminals--while requesting minimal funds for reducing the DNA backlog and tracking the monsters that abducted and sexually assaulted Adam Walsh, Elizabeth Smart, Dru Sjodin, Polly Klaas, Jessica Lunsford, and others like them.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby criticizes funding priorities in the DOJ budget request.

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