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On the recordApril 16, 2012
In February 2001, in his first Joint Address to Congress, President Bush said that racial profiling is 'wrong and we will end it in America.'
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin references President Bush's commitment to ending racial profiling.

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