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On the recordMay 12, 2009
NTEU supported an amendment offered by the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), to the fiscal year 2010 budget resolution, to provide an additional $550 million to fight drug violence along the border.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins and Lieberman proposed funding to combat drug violence at the border.

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