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On the recordSeptember 10, 2012
With regards to container screening in the SAFE Port Act, we required 100 percent screening of containers entering the U.S. earlier this year, but Secretary Napolitano deferred meeting this requirement until 2014.
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Rick Larsen
Democratic · Washington

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Larsen discusses the postponement of mandatory container screening.

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