[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            FIRE ACT GRANTS

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Speaker, we as a Nation can do much better in 
protecting the American people with our limited homeland security 
dollars.
  Recently I released a report on the status of the FIRE Act program, 
the only homeland security program specifically for firefighters, and 
we know it was the firefighters on 9/11 who were the true heroes and 
heroines. The statistics in this report, which can be found on my Web 
site, would be absolutely laughable if the threats to New York City and 
other areas in America were not so serious.
  In 2004, the FIRE Act program was capped at $750,000 regardless of 
threat and size; yet we know that the 9/11 Commission report says that 
all of our homeland dollars should be targeted specifically and only 
for high threat and risk. In this report, as the Members can see, 
Montana gets over $7.84 per person, while high-threat, number one 
threat city, New York City gets a mere 12 cents per person.
  This is unfair. This is wrong. We can do better.

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