04/07/2007
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"Jim has led innovative efforts to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs is better prepared."
"Since 9/11, America is safer – but we are not yet safe."
"I find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq ..."
"Robert J. Conrad, Jr., of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, vice James Dickson Phillips, Jr., retired."