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Bush asks to cut decontamination research
AP (cnn) ^

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."


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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; bushbudget; environment; epa; ricin
Talk about bad timing. Of all the bloated federal programs why is this the one they have to cut...is there any reason we need farm subsidies and other things with do nothing to grow our economy.

Bush opponents will get some political mileage out of this one.

1 posted on 02/05/2004 10:32:34 PM PST by optik_b
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To: optik_b
Bush opponents will get some political mileage out of this one.

They deserve to. This is well founded criticism.

2 posted on 02/06/2004 6:22:55 AM PST by nwrep
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