For Immediate Release | Contact: Reid Cherlin | |||
May 12, 2005 | 202-225-5635 | |||
Congressman Nadler Votes to Bring More Homeland Security |
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“There are real, known terrorist threats against specific targets in the Nadler attempted to offer an amendment to the bill to eliminate state minimums and distribute funding based solely on risk in order to better protect the highest priority targets and vulnerabilities of the nation. His amendment was blocked from consideration by the Rules Committee. Nadler questioned the Rules Committee decision, asking “how many times do we have to run for our lives – as we all did yesterday – before we realize this is not a game? We are facing a serious threat of terrorism and we need to allocate homeland security funding based on risk.” Although the bill does not eliminate state minimums, as Congressman Nadler would prefer, it does lower the state minimum allocations from 0.75 percent to 0.25 percent for most states and 0.45 percent for border states. This will make more funding available to address real threats all across ### |
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