Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law

The "Material Support" Bar: Denying Refuge to the Persecuted?

Type: Full Committee Hearing

Date: Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Time: 02:30pm

Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226

Presiding: Senator Dick Durbin

There is no video broadcast for this event.

Member Statements

Senator Patrick Leahy

D, VT

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Senator Russ Feingold

D, WI

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Senator Dick Durbin

D, IL

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Ranking Member Tom Coburn

Republican, Oklahoma

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Senator Edward Kennedy

Democrat, Massachusetts

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Panel I

Paul Rosenzweig

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy

Department of Homeland Security

Washington, DC

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Panel II

Anwen Hughes

Senior Counsel, Refugee Protection Program

Human Rights First

New York City, NY

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Thomas G. Wenski

Diocese of Orlando, Chairman, International Policy Committee

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Orlando, FL

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Mariana Name has been changed to protect witness identity

Colombian Refugee

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