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Chuck Schumer: It is actually a reduction in the amount of money by $50 million. I urge my colleagues to support this deeply…

On the recordSeptember 8, 2004
It is actually a reduction in the amount of money by $50 million. I urge my colleagues to support this deeply significant but, in terms of dollars, modest amendment so we can cut down the odds of a nuclear weapon being smuggled into this country and, God forbid, creating a catastrophe.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Discussing an amendment related to nuclear security funding.

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