[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  MAKING AMERICANS SAFER HERE AT HOME

  (Mr. CLARKE of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I have a proposal that will help 
us save tax dollars, pay down our debt, and better protect the American 
people.
  Instead of spending billions and billions of dollars to secure 
Afghanistan at the rate that we are--and we've spent over a half a 
trillion of our precious tax dollars in Afghanistan over the last 10 
years--I propose to redirect a small share of our tax dollars back to 
the U.S. and to use our money to hire and equip more police officers, 
more firefighters, more emergency medical providers, because one of the 
most effective ways to help protect the American people from a 
terrorist attack is to make Americans safer right here at home.

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