2016 NC Senate race: on Homeland Security

Deborah Ross: Maintain a strong military & care for veterans

Deborah will work to keep America's families safe from threats at home and abroad by maintaining a strong military, and by caring for our servicemembers, and their families. Deborah knows that we have a responsibility to make sure our veterans receive the care and benefits they have earned. As a state legislator, she fought for veterans and their families by cracking down on payday lending schemes targeting servicemembers. She also sponsored a uniform child custody law for military families. In the U.S. Senate, she will work to improve our VA system. She will not tolerate a VA that doesn't live up to the high standard of care that our nation's veterans deserve. [Source: www.deborahross.com/issues ]

Chris Rey: Organized bipartisan "Save the 440th Airlift Wing" coalition

Chris Rey: Improve support for military veterans

He said he wants to improve support for military veterans and make sure that wounded veterans can get health care and other services.

Richard Burr: OpEd: Quashed release of report about CIA torture

No sooner had he become committee chairman this year when he staged an unheard of stunt in trying to reclaim from the executive branch copies of a classified report--revealing new evidence of torture via "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the CIA--in order to bury it.

Thus, Burr attempted to erase from the official record the detailed report on the heinous conduct of clandestine operatives as the agency moved suspected terrorists from one black site to another around the world, while brutally mistreating them. If the declassified summary of the full report had not been published in national newspapers, there would have been no trace of what the senator has endeavored to cover up.