Senate Proceeding 03-31-09 on Mar 31st, 2009 :: 1:37:35 to 1:39:29
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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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Speech By: Joseph Lieberman

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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: this is a business between $16 billion and $38 billion a year. it takes $16 billion to $38 and sends it back to the drug cartel kingpins in mexico. if that was a business, it woul be one of the larger businesses in our 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: i do want to indicate for the record that also original cosponsors of the legislation -- of this amendment are mr. bennett, senator bennett from colorado, senator bingaman from new mexico, senator feinstein from california, senator senator kyl from arizona, senator pryor from arkansas,

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Joseph Lieberman: senato