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Ernest Istook: I rise to address some of the elements relating to homeland security. We did not begin just after September 11 to try to…

On the recordMay 22, 2002
I rise to address some of the elements relating to homeland security. We did not begin just after September 11 to try to address homeland security. Our subcommittee, among other things, funds the U.S. Customs Service. Even before September 11, we had allocated major funds to put 285 additional agents of the Customs Service at our borders, to add $33 million in inspection technology to examine the cargo that is coming into the country, looking for dangerous substances as well as drugs that could be sought to be brought in.
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Ernest Istook
Oklahoma

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Discussing homeland security funding and measures in relation to the wartime supplemental bill.

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