I refer to this same page: On December 4, 2001, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously sent the fiscal year 2002 defense appropriations bill to the Senate floor for action. The bill included $13.1 billion for homeland security. There was a parliamentary point of order raised by the Republicans that reduced the funding. Is the Senator aware of that?
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Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.
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