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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordMarch 6, 2013
It worries me that we're going to have to replicate something that apparently, in the Pentagon, we're doing fairly effectively.
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Kelly Ayotte
Republican · New Hampshire
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Ayotte expresses concern about replicating Pentagon's effective practices in DHS.

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