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House Homeland Security Leaders Seek Update From DHS Combating Domestic Terrorism

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

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House Homeland Security Leaders Seek Update From DHS Combating Domestic Terrorism

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

The top Democrat and Republican leaders on the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday asked Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan for an update on his department’s efforts to combat domestic terrorism in the wake of two deadly mass shooting incidents last weekend. Pointing to the weekend attacks and other mass shooting incidents this year, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Ranking Member Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) noted in a letter to the DHS Chief that “These acts of mass violence…

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