02/28/2012
https://congress.gov...
"There is a decrease in the IECGP part of the Homeland Security budget."
"I am greatly dismayed, to say the least, to see the dramatic cuts to a couple of grant programs that are vital to our local and State first responders."
"I have concluded, though, that looking at what you proposed to us and the Nation, the last administration made the mistake of not understanding that real homeland security starts from the ground up, o..."
"The money goes directly to the local communities, the States can't cream it off, take it off the top."