Posted on 02/05/2004 10:32:34 PM PST by optik_b
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) --On the same day a poison-laced letter shuttered Senate offices, President Bush asked Congress to eliminate an $8.2 million research program on how to decontaminate buildings attacked by toxins.
Buried in documents justifying Bush's 2005 budget proposal released Monday is an Environmental Protection Agency acknowledgment that his proposed cut "represents complete elimination of homeland security building decontamination research."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Bush opponents will get some political mileage out of this one.
They deserve to. This is well founded criticism.
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