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Hal Rogers: “There is nearly $5 billion in the grant funds for State and local communities for first responders. It has been there…”

On the recordJune 13, 2007
There is nearly $5 billion in the grant funds for State and local communities for first responders. It has been there for a couple of years. I don't know why we don't insist that the authorizers in this body write the rules so that these communities can get their hands on that money and use it for the purposes for which it was intended. The money is laying there. I don't know why we are continuing to pour billions more into it when the hopper is full already. Let's fix the system and unclog the pipe that drains the hopper.
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Hal Rogers
Republican · Kentucky
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Discussing the allocation of grant funds for first responders.

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