Peter Visclosky: “I appreciate the chairman yielding, and I do recognize the very tough…”

On the recordJune 10, 2015

I appreciate the chairman yielding, and I do recognize the very tough and dangerous job that local enforcement officers have, every last one of them, and what an important job they do. I certainly have been active over my career in Congress working with the Department of Defense to transfer necessary equipment to law enforcement agencies. But I would agree with the assertion of the gentleman that we do have to make a distinction with some of these types of materials between civil law enforcement and military action.

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Peter Visclosky

Indiana

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Jun 10, 2015

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