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Lawmakers eye restoring funds for first responders
Washington Times ^
| 2/06/04
| Shaun Waterman
Posted on 02/05/2004 10:16:41 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Congress is likely to restore the cuts in funding for local emergency services that President Bush had proposed in his 2005 budget, despite the pressure to control spending, said Republican lawmakers and congressional aides yesterday.
In all, the budget of the Office of Domestic Preparedness
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bushbudget; firstresponders; homelandsecurity
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02/05/2004 10:16:42 PM PST
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kattracks
To: kattracks
"First Responders". Yeah, right. I work in a state agency that is big into homeland security and training first responders. We get millions from the feds every year and what do we spend it on? Brand new, top of the line, Dell laptops every 18 months, 19 inch flat panel monitors to replace the 17 inch flat panel monitors, and four orders of proximas in only the last 12 months with each order replacing the previous one.
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