Joe Lieberman: “One thing I believe we all agree on--I know my friend from Illinois and I certainly do--is that the Federal Government…”

“One thing I believe we all agree on--I know my friend from Illinois and I certainly do--is that the Federal Government has been underfunding the State Homeland Security Grant Program and all the others. So while we have these significant arguments about how to divide the pie, the other part of this debate--which, fortunately, we have an agreement on--is that the pie should be bigger. In this bill, for State homeland security grants, we go back to the high level of fiscal year 2004, $3.1 billion. Quite shockingly, the administration has lowered the money in each of the years since then, though no one's estimate would say the threat to homeland security is less than it was in 2004.”