From a Homeland Security standpoint. H.R. 4241 proposes to cut funding for the COPS program by $480 million and to remove important funding for local firefighters by $215 millioncuts of 80 percent and 30 percent. respectively. As ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration. Border Security. and Claims. I am outraged at the fact that its provisions seek to break the promise of putting an additional 2.000 border patrol agents on the job in 2006. as promised in landmark intelligence reforms passed late last year and endorsed by the 9/11 Commission. The budget provides funding for only 210 agents. Overall. the plan before the House will increase the deficit and the national debt. In the Homeland Security Committee. we completed a markup of a border security measure. H.R. 4312. that proposes to enhance the way our Department of Homeland Security protects our international borders and ports of entry. The cuts contained in the legislation on the Floor will render this measure a nullity if there are no resources available to execute its provisions.
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