Kweisi Mfume on Homeland Security Democratic Senate Challenger (MD); previously U.S. Representative

We are not doing enough to protect our infrastructure

Yes, we are safer in some ways, but we are not yet safe. Our armed forces, intelligence operatives and first responders are bravely fighting terror across the globe and here at home, but many of the worst threats to our nation are still ominously at large.

As a nation we are not doing enough to protect our ports, our tunnels, our railways or our borders, and our intelligence community has to be properly funded to be able to gather the information needed to thwart attacks aimed at our nation or our people.

I believe that to secure our homeland, we must rekindle the bipartisan resolve to do so. We must set real spending priorities with measurable goals and objectives for our security agencies.

Don’t surrender our essential liberties for anti-terrorism

Support defense conversion; end Cuba trade embargo

If elected to Congress, which of the following general principles or specific proposals will you support concerning American military and foreign policy?
• Congress should support defense conversion by funding job-placement and job-training programs for displaced military personnel and defense technology workers.
• Congress should completely lift the ban on homosexuals in the military.
• The United States should lift the trade embargo against Cuba.

Pro-defense spending, according to PVS survey.

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