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Posted on 01/15/2009 2:26:03 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced Gov. Janet Napolitano to his fellow senators Thursday, saying she has a "no-nonsense" attitude that will serve her well as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
McCain introduced Napolitano to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which questioned the Arizona Democrat about her credentials. McCain told committee members that Napolitano has served Arizona as a United States Attorney, Attorney General and governor and that, in 2005, she was named one of America's Top Five Governors by "Time" magazine, which stated, "Positioning herself as a no-nonsense, pro-business centrist, she has worked outside party lines since coming to office."
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I wish he'd stay there...........................
Pitiful...
Praised by Time magazine. There’s something.
Allrighty then!!! More than I can take for one day. I’ll leave you with this one.
the Senate (including republican Hutchison) are going to throw some more $$$ down the Mexico drain. The billion and half just wasn’t enough to throw away.
http://www.alpineavalanche.com/articles/2009/01/15/news/news01.txt
Rodriguez aims at gun running
Special to the Avalanche
Alpine’s representative in the U.S. House - Democrat Ciro D. Rodriguez of San Antonio - introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at cracking down on illegal gunrunning.
Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, introduced matching legislation in the Senate Monday.
“We must continue our work to stop the violence on both sides of the border,” Rodriguez said. “We have made some progress in stopping the ruthless drug cartels but illegal trafficking of guns into Mexico continues, and we are a long way from keeping people along the border as safe as they deserve to be.”
“Narcotic trafficking organizations aren’t confined by borders,” Hutchison said. “The increasing violence in Mexico is now a U.S. national security issue. The powerful Mexican drug cartels are a threat to the safety and security of U.S. communities and the U.S. law enforcement officials who seek to protect us.
“We must commit to providing the necessary resources to end the destructive violence of the Mexican drug cartels, on both sides of the border. This legislation takes an important step toward protecting our citizens from the terrorism that drug cartels seek to spread.”
The bill would authorize $15 million in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 to expand the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Gunrunner Initiative, ATF’s southwest border initiative to deprive drug traffickers of firearms and reduce firearms-related violence on both sides of the border.
The money will be used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to hire, train and deploy an additional 80 special agents, enough for at least seven more Project Gunrunner Teams in the border region to investigate and help prosecute individuals that traffic weapons into Mexico.
The bill also authorizes $9.5 million in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 to enhance cooperation between the United States and Mexico.
This money would allow ATF to assign an additional 12 agents to consulates in Mexico to support Mexico’s efforts to trace seized weapons and to train Mexican law enforcement officials in anti-trafficking investigative techniques.
According to the ATF, most of the firearms violence in Mexico is perpetrated by drug traffickers who are vying for control of drug trafficking routes to the United States and engaging in turf battles for disputed distribution territories.
I BETCHA he is working out a deal to change parties to give the dems a bulletproof majority..just in case the RINOs won't play ball.
It's time to head home McCain....stop dancing...
Boy did we dodge a bullet with this loser!
He crossed the aile and never came back!
It wouldn't surprise me a damn bit if King RINO doesn't change parties within the next couple of years.
Its better to lose with dignity... The one good thing about this election.. Mccain lost.
Its better to lose with dignity... The one good thing about this election.. Mccain lost.
To think I actually voted for this P***K makes me want to puke. If it wasn’t for Sarah I would never have voted for this once hero of the country he now betrays.
Hear, hear. If he would have won he would have continued this same crap and dragged Palin down in 2012. Glad McCain lost.
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