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Congress should reconsider the biometric exit requirement and push the Administration to faithfully execute existing immigration laws.

The U.S. is spending the right amount on homeland security. However, Congress should adhere to a set of strategic principles tocreate a comprehensive approach to homeland security spending. Toensure adequate spending on homeland security over the long term,Congress will have to address entitlement spending.

Brad Johnson is a retired CIA operative who heads up Americans for Intelligence Reform and writes for the Epoch Times. He is in Helena, Montana as we speak.

Brad Johnson is a retired CIA operative who heads up Americans for Intelligence Reform and writes for the Epoch Times. He is in Helena, Montana as we speak.

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Congress should fully fund the budget request for REAL ID implementation.

Draconian Patriot Act exposed By Daya Gamage Foreign Service National Political Specialist (ret) U.S. Department of State Six weeks after the September 11 attacks on American soil, the U.S. Congress passed the “USA/Patriot Act,” nation’s hurried surveillance laws that expanded the government’s authority to check on its own citizens, while simultaneously reducing checks and balances […]

Provisions in the House bill should be considered on their own merits.

The necessity for tools like the PATRIOT Act in combating acts of terrorism makes reauthorization an obvious choice.

Congress should resist initiatives that would repeal or erode keyprovisions of the Patriot Act.