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On the recordJanuary 6, 2025
I understand there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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