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Summer Lee: “I am not advocating for broader deployment of readers at present, but am concerned that DHS would ask port workers to…”

On the recordJune 17, 2013
I am not advocating for broader deployment of readers at present, but am concerned that DHS would ask port workers to pay for a biometric card whose biometric capabilities apparently may never be utilized.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Sheila Jackson Lee raises concerns about costs for port workers regarding biometric cards.

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