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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

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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

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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

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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,

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Lamar Alexander: senate that the debt that is proposed by these budgets is so staggeringly high that we need to find some way to put a limit on it. i'm offering, with this amendment, another way to put some limit on it. i call it a runaway debt point of order.

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Lamar Alexander: resolution that estimates gross federal debt, our total debt, total amount of obligations exceeding 90% of gross domestic product in any year covered by the budget. put that in a little plainer english, what it means is the senate would be forced to come up with 60 votes if the public

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Lamar Alexander: the united states, but year in and year out we produce about $1 out of every $4 of wealth produced in the world, 22%, 23%, 24%, 26% of all the wealth produced each year in the world is produced in the united states for distribution among primarily

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Lamar Alexander: 90% into some sort of -- in some sort of perspective, when was the last time that we had an annual national -- that we had a debt, a national debt that exceed 90% of the gross domestic product? it was when we had world war ii,

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Lamar Alexander: and so right after world war ii, our debt, are our national debt, was about 90% of the annual gross domestic product of the united states. more recently, it's been about 40%. about 40%. but here is what happens now. the senator from new hampshire

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Lamar Alexander: but then it comes back down to out 4% of gross domestic product, and it stays at about 4% of gross domestic product. that's the obama budget. that's the conrad budget, which as the budget director for president obama says is about

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Lamar Alexander: for example, the president's proposal is to double the debt almost in five years and to triple it in almost ten years. so we start out with about 40% of gross domestic product, but by 2014 we're at 66.5% of

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Lamar Alexander: future as he sees and i respect him greatly for that. i just don't like the picture that he's presented, because that picture, as i mentioned, doubles the debt in five years and nearly triples it in ten years. so we go from about 40% of gross domestic product to 71% of gross

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Lamar Alexander: president obama would increase the debt more not just than president bush, but than all the presidents put together going back to george washington. that's a very sobering so president bush was -- may have made some mistakes, but he was not judged on whether he caused hurricane