Cutting funding to homeland security grants for state and local first responders, at a time when our nation remains a prime target for terrorism, is extremely shortsighted and threatens to leave our communities even more vulnerable,
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I support a top to bottom investigation into the handling of prisoners in Iraq held by U.S. forces and contractors and severe punishment for those in charge of our military who are found to have turned a blind eye, or worse, actively sought to hide an apparent pattern of inhumane treatment.
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