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We can help make this region safe. We can help make this country safe.

We are at risk, great risk of a terrorist attack.

I urge you to include provisions that direct at least 10 percent of federal agency investments to communities where 20 percent or more of the population have lived below the poverty line for the last 30 years.

We cannot afford to make deep funding cuts that emphasize the cost of a program over their true worth.