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Advertisements Urge Senate to Guarantee Homeland Security Legislation Not Become a "Bill of Wrongs" (9/30/2002)

Advertisements Urge Senate to Guarantee Homeland Security Legislation Not Become a "Bill of Wrongs"

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Description: WASHINGTON - In full-page ads in influential inside-the-Beltway publications, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocates today urged the Senate to keep the controversial legislation that would establish the Homeland Security Department from becoming a "bill of wrongs" that threatens the Constitution and the basic rights guaranteed to everyone in America.
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