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On the recordNovember 18, 2014
this program does not gut it; it actually enhances it. Secondly, if this was important to stop ISIL, ISIL never would have started. The fact is that we had this program way beyond anything anybody is talking about today, and it didn't slow up or eliminate ISIL one iota. That is a straw man which we should not even have here. It has no effect on that, and everybody who has read the intelligence knows that. I yield 3 minutes to the Senator from Connecticut. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Nov 18, 2014

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