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Byron Dorgan: This amendment has two parts to it. No. 1, it increases the reward for the elimination of the al-Qaida leadership and…

On the recordJuly 26, 2007
This amendment has two parts to it. No. 1, it increases the reward for the elimination of the al-Qaida leadership and Osama bin Laden, and, No. 2, it required a quarterly classified report to be made to the Congress, every quarter, from this administration and from any administration, to say what they are doing, to tell us what they have been doing to try to apprehend and bring to justice and eliminate the leadership of the greatest terrorist threat to this country. Is it too much to ask that we ought to be informed?
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing an amendment related to the fight against al-Qaida and reporting to Congress.

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