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James Traficant: the Traficant amendment does not mandate troops on the border but does not limit any action taken by the Secretary of…

On the recordSeptember 16, 1998
the Traficant amendment does not mandate troops on the border but does not limit any action taken by the Secretary of Defense and our military to assist in drugs crossing our border. So under the Traficant amendment, if the administration had so chosen, it has the option of using every asset they have to combat this problem. Under the Reyes amendment, they would limit it and take away the assignation of troops, if they would wish to assign to our borders, and I believe it is a killing amendment, I believe it is designed to simply kill the total flexibility of the Pentagon to aid in the matter.

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Debating the Traficant amendment related to military assistance in drug enforcement at the border.

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