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Charles E. Schumer: “Somehow this administration thinks that Georgia peanut farmers are more at risk than the Empire State Building.…”

On the recordJune 1, 2006
Somehow this administration thinks that Georgia peanut farmers are more at risk than the Empire State Building. Something is dramatically wrong.

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Schumer highlights the perceived misallocation of homeland security resources by the administration.

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