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Jim Pillen: “Next time there’s a balloon floating across the country and nobody can identify its source, and it’s over Nebraska…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2026
Next time there’s a balloon floating across the country and nobody can identify its source, and it’s over Nebraska space, we’re going to make sure it doesn’t get out of the state. We’ll bring it down.
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Jim Pillen
Republican · Nebraska

Editor's note · Context

Discussing future responses to security threats.

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