It would grant you, the Department of Homeland Security, unprecedented power to do as it sees fit on public lands within 100 miles of the northern border.
Jon Tester: “It would grant you, the Department of Homeland Security, unprecedented power to do as it sees fit on public lands within…”
On the recordMarch 7, 2012
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Tester warns about the expansive powers granted to Homeland Security by the bill.
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