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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) recently won four awards for his support of lower taxes, less government spending and other conservative causes. Tancredo received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of Enterprise Award, the National Taxpayers’ Union’s Friend of the Taxpayer Award, the American Conservative Union’s “Best and Brightest” for his 100 percent conservative rating, and the Susan B. Anthony List’s Protection of the Unborn Award. “The Sixth District sent me to Congress to reduce the size of government, lower taxes, protect the unborn and secure our borders,” said Tancredo. “I am humbled and honored by the wide...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the otherwise liberal Democrat from California, provided new evidence last week that politicians in Washington are starting to take heed of grassroots demands that our borders be secured. Feinstein told Human Events that if we can build a fence along the entire Mexican border, we should build it, and that secure fencing should be constructed wherever the border can be easily crossed. The relevance of this issue was dramatized by Feinstein's questioning of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte at the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual World Wide Threat hearing February 2.