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  • Name: Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr.
  • Location: Knoxville, TN
  • Web: duncan.house.gov/
  • Bio: I have proudly represented the 2nd Congressional District of Tennessee since 1988, devoting my career to advocating smaller government and fiscal responsibility.
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Largest-ever Federal Payroll

The average federal employee now makes $31,000 a year more than the average private sector employee. From a recent USA Today article: “Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time – in pay and hiring – during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.”

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The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history.

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NYC Terror Trials Defy All Logic

It is unbelievable to think that a terrorist mastermind captured on a foreign battlefield would be transferred to a civilian courthouse located just steps from Ground Zero and lavished with all the rights and privileges of American citizenship.
In 2006, I voted for the Military Commissions Act, which authorized military commissions to try enemy combata... read more

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For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?

What do we do if the case against KSM is thrown out because the government refuses to reveal sources or methods, or if he gets a hung jury, or is acquitted, or has his conviction overturned?

When Maj. Andre, the British spy and collaborator of Benedict Arnold, was captured, he got a military tribunal, after which he was hanged. When Gen. Andrew Jackson captured two British subjects in Spanish Florida aiding renegade Indians, Jackson had both tried and hanged on the spot.

When eight German saboteurs were caught in 1942 after being put ashore by U-boat, they were tried in secret before a military commission and executed, with the approval of the Supreme Court.Read more at www.wnd.com