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Government was fighting over cuts to one-third of 1% of what well spend overall this fiscal year. that is not to diminish the actual impact of any cut to any individual program or agency. the government is about services and not about ledgers. the $786 million in first responder grant which this bill cuts, may only be 2% of the homeland security budget, but can fund a whole lot and most americans care most about funding just one, the one in their neighborhood. the point is this budget deal does ...

Respect and someone who lives in post-katrina new orleans, i feel as many americans do for the suffering occurring in families and communities there in alabama. i think it calls us as a people and of course the way we are called as a people, one of the most important ways we respond is through the government. a moment like this disaster or the disaster of hurricane katrina coming on six years ago now when we need to reach out and provide resources, the single most efficient and effective and hum...

$786 million. the fema first responders. now, i just thought id pull out some hometown video tonight. this of course is fargo, north dakota. theyre fighting a flood for the um teenth time. another record flood. fema always shows up. but theyre going to get cut. the medical assistance, search and rescue, every governor that goes through a disaster always calls for fema assistance but i guess theyre going to get a busy signal now or somebody is going to take it off the hook because nobody is going...

Dakota. theyre fighting a flood for the um teenth time. another record flood. fema always shows up. but theyre going to get cut. the medical assistance, search and rescue, every governor that goes through a disaster always calls for fema assistance but i guess theyre going to get a busy signal now or somebody is going to take it off the hook because nobody is going to be there to answer it. theyre going to cut fema big time. count on that. well, thats only $786 million. thats chump change to the...

$1.4 trillion, which is only about a third of all the money the u.s. will spend in 2011. 15 billion is 1% of the discretionary spending. the dramatic standoff that almost shut down the federal government was fighting over cuts to one-third of 1% of what well spend overall this fiscal year. that is not to diminish the actual impact of any cut to any individual program or agency. the government is about services and not about ledgers. the $786 million in first responder grants, which this bill cut...

Theyll serve up $150 million. okay? you boys out there in rural america who are tea partiers, you think that your water is all clean? guess what? you got to serve up $80 million in rural water development. you know, clean water. its kind of important. thats on there. lets not forget environmental quality incentives for businesses that decide to do things that are good for the environment, those incentives are out there, going to get cut $80 million. lets just keep going down the list. agricultur...

Cuts to one-third of 1% of what well spend overall this fiscal year. that is not to diminish the actual impact of any cut to any individual program or agency. the government is about services and not about ledgers. the $786 million in first responder grant which this bill cuts, may only be 2% of the homeland security budget, but can fund a whole lot and most americans care most about funding just one, the one in their neighborhood. the point is this budget deal does very little to improve the na...