Posted on 06/24/2003 10:31:31 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The House yesterday passed, on a 425-2 vote, a bill that will spend $29.4 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, while Democrats complained that the amount fell "dangerously short" of protecting the nation from terrorist attacks.
Rep. Harold Rogers, Kentucky Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee, lauded the "largest reorganization of the federal government in 50 years" and insisted that the government was doing all it could to fight terrorism.
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