Michael Nutter: “Please do not take the same steps with emergency preparedness funding as lives are at stake in this one.”

I am stunned at an 85 percent cut in the funding for the Philadelphia area.

We cannot let it happen again. We have got to start moving in a different direction.

Mayor Nutter gave a persuasive testimony about the ill effects of the Department's decision to consolidate vital independent grants.

An 85 percent cut is, No. 1, too much for us to bear.