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Joseph Lieberman: the mexican drug cartels are a clear and present danger not only to the people of mexo but to the people of the united states. and that fact, senator collins and i believe, compels us to provide our feral law enforcement agencies with additional funding to ensure

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Joseph Lieberman: conclu as the leaders of the homeland security committee necessary to effectively combat the cartels. the secretary announced the redeployment of 350 personnel within her department. we need to do more. the secretary also said that she had to play with the hand she

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Joseph Lieberman: protection to hire, train and equip canine teams to be sent to the border to significantly imrees the number of -- increase the number of inspections there, particular the exit inspections, which we don't do the funding would also cover costs related to temporary infrastructure tone sure that

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Joseph Lieberman: stop truckloads or carloads at poforts entry. the department of homeland security would receive an additional $20 million to improve the communications in the fieldor customs and border protection and immigration and customs enforcement law enforcement officers have the ability to call for help when they a confronted by

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Joseph Lieberman: department of justice have the resources investigate the cartel. that's why our amendment provides $130 million to i.c.e., imgraitionz and customs enforcement, for 350 full-time investigators -- immigrations and customs enforcement for 350 full-time investigators to work

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Joseph Lieberman: borders, simply cannot afford to deil the necessary additional resources and personnel to these fusion centers. so this amendment would $30 million for operation stone garden to reimburse state and local law enforcement for their participation in these programs. we would also add $10 million in

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Joseph Lieberman: existing program called project gun runner. it would enable the hiring of additional 150 agents and 50 inspectors firearms trafficking -- illegal firearms trafficking near or across the mexican $20 million for the human smug

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Joseph Lieberman: if i may borrow a phrase from another enables a real surge in america's joint war with the government of mexico against the mexican drug cartels to occur. the cartels

1:27:29 to 1:27:46( Edit History Discussion )

Joseph Lieberman: south, mexico. additional resources provided by this amendment will improveur ability to break the grip of the cartel drug-related violence from mexico does not further encroach

1:28:32 to 1:28:46( Edit History Discussion )

Susan Collins: 7,000 people have drug-related violence in mexico, including 522 military and law enforcement officials. the mexican drug cartels have

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House Clerk: become increasingly brazen violent, targeting police and journalists and using graphic displays of violence to

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Susan Collins: intimidate communities. the drug cartels also have been able to corrupt some local law enforcement officials who then are complicit in illegal drug production and trafficking. compounding the

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Susan Collins: police an in mexico are often ill-equipped to confront such well-armed and trained forces. mr. president, this growing violence poses a significant danger to the security of our country, particularly to border states. drug-related violence has

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Susan Collins: kidnappings and home invasions directly related to these mexican drug cartels authorities estimate, as the chairman has indicated, that more than 230 cities as far way as anchorage, alaska, and boston, massachusetts, have distribution networks related to

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Susan Collins: government has invested significant resources in preventing drugsrom our country, but until ver recently, the federal government

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House Clerk: has focused only very

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Susan Collins: those efforts underway on our southwest border to gun and cash smuggling by the drug cartels in mexico. these resources represent a more substantial commitment to

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House Clerk: address the threat than the administration announced last

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Susan Collins: week personnel from other parts of the country to the southwest border. those steps were good ones, they're needed, but they simply are not sufficient and they risk leaving other borders not fully staffed, northern borders.

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House Clerk: provides additional funding for

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Susan Collins: customs and border protection to deploy 1,600 additional officers robbing other ports of entry. it would also provide funding for 400 new canine teams. many of these new officers and teams will be deployed to the

1:33:32 to 1:33:52( Edit History Discussion )

Susan Collins: southwest border to conduct inspections, exit southbound traffic to mexico so that we can interdict the illegal export of weapons and cash that, again, fuel that cartel-rated violence in mexico.

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Susan Collins: threat. as senator lieberman has described, our amendment also provides $50 million in

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House Clerk: additional funding to train, hire and deploy an additional

1:34:52 to 1:35:13( Edit History Discussion )

Susan Collins: 100 investigators working on project gun runner. this will help expand investigations of armsmuggling smuggling. the amendment sets aside an additional $30 million for a highly successful cooperative program known as operation stone

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Susan Collins: for important technology upgrades to make c.p.b. officers and border patrol agents along the border and, indeed, across the country more effective in identifying potential smugglers and in communicating with each other and with state and local law enforcement.

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Susan Collins: this will make a real difference. mr. president, what we have done is put together a carefully crafted amendment that will help

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House Clerk: to

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Susan Collins: at the federal cooperation with state and local law enforcement to help us counter this extraordinary rise in stliels has spilled over the border from mexico that is threatening the particularly in those border states like arizona but also

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Susan Collins: a make it country, but this affects american citizens directly. i am convinced, based on the hearings that our committee has held and the investigations that we have conducted, that this amendment is essential to countering this growing threat

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Joseph Lieberman: issue before the senate. mr. lieberman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connectic. mr. lieberman mr. president, i want to thank my colleague from maine for her excellent statement, also for the spirit of bipartisanship that i have been her -- our relationship. i'm pleased we can bring this forward quickly.

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Joseph Lieberman: this is concerns people, particularly along our southern border, but also in cities around america. 230 cities, where the mexican drug cartels are operating, and they're all over the country.

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Joseph Lieberman: we've just got to help the president of mexico have the guts to take on the drug cartels, a tremendous risk to himself and his government, to deploy his military. we're helping them through the merit initiative. this is a way to beef up our own response and our own sponsorship i thank senator collins for her statement and suppo

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Joseph Lieberman: senato

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John Thune: senator udall from new mexico. a truly bipartisan group of cosponsors.

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Joseph Lieberman: we are going to ask for call vote on this amendment. i know there's a lot of interest in it from members on both sides of the ais senate and from out the country -- and throughout the country. i hope we can vote on it as soon as possibl

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Lamar Alexander: consideration. the pres clerk will report the a the clerk: the senator from tennessee, mr. a alexander -- mr. alexander: mr. preside, i ask unanimous consent to dispense with f the amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. i see the senator from new hampshire is here and the senator from arizona, the assistant republican leader,