Congress sends 9/11 bill to Bush

[babylonsister]

Congress sends 9/11 bill to Bush

By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Congress sent President Bush legislation Friday to intensify anti-terror efforts in the U.S., shifting money to high-risk states and cities and expanding screening of air and sea cargo to stave off future Sept. 11-style attacks.

The measure carries out major recommendations of the independent 9/11 Commission.

The bill, passed by the House on a 371-40 vote, ranks among the top accomplishments of the six-month-old Democratic Congress. The Senate approved the measure late Thursday by 85-8, and the White House said the president would sign the bill.

Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks and three years after the 9/11 Commission made its recommendations, "Congress is finally embracing what the 9/11 families have been saying all along," said Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. "It takes a willingness to do things a different way."

The bill elevates the importance of risk factors in determining which states and cities get federal security funds — that would mean more money for such cities as New York and Washington — and also puts money into a new program to assure that security officials at every level can communicate with each other.

It would require screening of all cargo on passenger planes within three years and sets a five-year goal of scanning all container ships for nuclear devices before they leave foreign ports.

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[John Q. Citizen]

1. For a minute I though you meant they were making bush pay for 9/11and I

thought, that sounds fair.

[rosesaylavee]

3. Between the money his family (including Poppy)

and Cheney have made on this war, they could take a huge chunk out of our national debt.

Let's make that a condition of their punishment when we place them in Leavenworth, ok? All of their personal assets will be liquidated to begin to pay for the crimes against the American and Iraqi people.

[MissWaverly]

2. You mean (GASP) they are going to give money to Dem cities

"The Bush Administration's formula for apportioning the $600 million in federal
homeland security assistance for fiscal 2003 clearly reflected terrorists' prime
targets: Cheyenne, Wyoming (Wyoming is the VP home state); Anchorage, Alaska; and
major cities and landmarks in Iowa, North Dakota and Idaho. Or so it would seem.
In federal per capita federal anti-terror assistance to the fifty states and
Washington, DC, four of the top five recipients were Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska
and North Dakota...New York was fiftieth."

page 202-203, the bush haters handbook by Jack Huberman, Nation Books, 2003