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Warner Leads Virginia and Maryland Senate Delegation in Push to Fund WMATA National Security Needs

Press Release

Date: Dec. 18, 2023
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: National Security Infrastructure

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"Given this sui generis role played by WMATA, it should come as no surprise that the agency shoulders some burdens that are unique among transit providers. Perhaps most important of these burdens is WMATA's responsibility to prevent terrorism targeting our Nation's capital--a responsibility far out of proportion to the size of the system.

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"Unfortunately, this responsibility is more than hypothetical. In 2010, an anti-government extremist opened fire at the Pentagon station. A year later, a man was convicted in connection with the targeting of four WMATA stations in a terrorist bomb plot. And let us not forget that it was a Metro Transit Police officer who, while assisting Capitol Police, discovered the bomb planted at the Democratic National Committee on January 6, 2021."

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