Bill Lee: “First responder funding, police, firefighters, health care emergency workers, we are cutting $648 million out of that…”

“First responder funding, police, firefighters, health care emergency workers, we are cutting $648 million out of that budget. We are cutting port security grants by 63 percent. This totals, in terms of homeland security, an additional $155 million in 2005 and $857 million for 5 years. What kind of real war on terrorism do we have? What kind of commitment do we have to secure America, to secure people in our country? We will have to look at it in a way that we have not looked at it before if in fact these numbers hold in the Bush budget.”