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Cord Byrd: “Within the $5.1 billion there is nearly $2.5 billion for homeland security. That includes funding for firefighters…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2002
Within the $5.1 billion there is nearly $2.5 billion for homeland security. That includes funding for firefighters, police officers, port and border security, and airport security, search and rescue teams, food safety, drinking water safety. If the President does not make the emergency designation, he will block nearly $2.5 billion in homeland security investments. I hope that the President will join with Congress in this bipartisan approach to homeland security, declare these items to be an emergency, and make these important investments immediately to protect the American people from terrorist attacks.
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Cord Byrd
Florida
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Discussing funding for homeland security during a debate on emergency legislation.

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