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On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
I hope you will look at that as you see this necessity of trying to rearrange the money that you have in terms of looking at risk instead of parochialism that makes us all look good.
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn emphasizes the need for risk-based funding in Homeland Security.

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