This has been a very integral issue for both of these leaders for many years. Senator COCHRAN. who chaired this committee before the Democratic majority took over. and Senator BYRD. who was the ranking member on this committee for years and has been intimately involved in the effort to try to make sure we adequately address things like port securitytheir leadership is extraordinary. and this bill is a reflection of that. I do not want this amendment to in any way imply they have not made an extraordinary and a very effective effort to move forward with border security because within the context of the dollars they had available to them. they have done excellent work. What this amendment does. howeverand I congratulate the Senator from South Carolina for bringing it forwardis acknowledge the fact that we have an emergency here. It Is as big and important an emergency relative to national security as the war in Iraq is.
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