Sean Patrick Maloney: “we as a Nation can do much better in protecting the American people with our limited homeland security dollars. Recently…”

“we as a Nation can do much better in protecting the American people with our limited homeland security dollars. Recently I released a report on the status of the FIRE Act program, the only homeland security program specifically for firefighters, and we know it was the firefighters on 9/11 who were the true heroes and heroines. The statistics in this report, which can be found on my Web site, would be absolutely laughable if the threats to New York City and other areas in America were not so serious. In 2004, the FIRE Act program was capped at $750,000 regardless of threat and size; yet we know that the 9/11 Commission report says that all of our homeland dollars should be targeted specifically and only for high threat and risk. In this report, as the Members can see, Montana gets over $7.84 per person, while high-threat, number one threat city, New York City gets a mere 12 cents per person. This is unfair. This is wrong. We can do better. ____________________”