Reply #15: Don't forget: GOP Nixes $1.75 Billion for Homeland Security [View All]

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Senate Rejects Bid to Boost Homeland Security Funding

By Helen Dewar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 23, 2003; Page A07

Senate Republicans yesterday turned back the first of several Democratic attempts to add to proposed spending for homeland security next year, ensuring the issue a role in the 2004 congressional elections.

A proposal by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) to add $1.75 billion to the $29.3 billion appropriations bill for the new Department of Homeland Security was defeated on a largely party-line vote of 50 to 43 -- 17 votes short of the 60 needed under Senate rules because the proposal exceeded budget allocations.

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