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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The limited purposes for funding would be: targeted counterterrorism operations, protecting United States infrastructure…”

On the recordMay 16, 2007
The limited purposes for funding would be: targeted counterterrorism operations, protecting United States infrastructure and personnel, and training and equipping Iraqi security forces. This plan gives our troops in the field the resources they need today and a strategy that is worthy of their service as they look to tomorrow. I urge my colleagues to support the Feingold-Reid amendment.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Discussing funding for counterterrorism and support for Iraqi security forces.

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