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Summer Lee: “CBP previously estimated it would need $6 billion over 10 years to modernize existing ports of entry to meet its current…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2014
CBP previously estimated it would need $6 billion over 10 years to modernize existing ports of entry to meet its current security and facilitation missions.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Cites funding needs for modernizing ports to enhance security and efficiency.

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