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Mayors vent over changes in homeland security grants
Mayors vent over changes in homeland security grants

By Greta Wodele, CongressDaily
A gathering of frustrated U.S. mayors grilled Bush administration officials Friday about federal homeland security initiatives.

The mayors told officials that recent changes in homeland security grants were inflexible, confusing and cumbersome.

"That's our problem in dealing with you," said Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat who added that the amounts of cuts in homeland security grants over recent years would result in the grant programs being "eliminated by 2009."

The mayors also called on Homeland Security officials to increase funding for communication equipment, transit and rail systems, ports, air cargo screening, among other items.

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