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Title: Senate mandates spending Homeland Security funds
Source:
JTA
URL Source: http://www.jta.org/
Published: Jul 14, 2006
Author: staff
Post Date: 2006-07-14 10:02:54 by Eoghan
Ping List: *Israeli Espionage*
Keywords: None
Views: 63
Comments: 1
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation that would release $25 million in homeland security funds for non-profit groups. The amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill, sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), instructs the Homeland Security Department to disburse $25 million in 2006 funds within the next three months. The department had not disbursed any funds yet, saying they were reserved only for "credible" threats, a standard Jewish groups said was impossible to meet. The legislation would allow money to be spent on potential threats, and comes a day after Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, told Agudath Israel of America that the policy was a mistake and promised to reverse it. More than half of the $25 million set aside in 2005 - the first year funds were allocated to non-profits - went to Jewish organizations, mostly for security measures including barriers and gate systems. The United Jewish Communities and the Orthodox Union led lobbying for the funds. Mikulski and Specter are also working to include $25 million in funds in the 2007 budget.
Poster Comment: A few more yeshiva and doctor grads on the government dime...
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#1. To: Eoghan (#0)
It's obvious who is really important to the whores in Congress.
"Freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in ...into an unbearable hell and a choking life."
-OBL
"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
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