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Transcript: UDALL: TAX CUTS THREATEN HOMELAND SECURITY NEEDS
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- April 29, 2003
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For Immediate Release April 29, 2003 UDALL: TAX CUTS THREATEN HOMELAND
SECURITY NEEDS (Washington, D.C.) - President Bush's trillion dollar
tax
cut proposal is threatening funding for many of our nation's homeland
security
needs, Congressman Mark Udall (D-CO) said today in a speech on the
floor
of the U.S. House of Representatives. Udall referenced an article
in Sunday's
Denver Post, which reported the threat of shoulder-fired missiles
to our
airplanes. The article quoted security experts as saying this threat
is
"nearly impossible to defend against," and points out that equipping
the
U.S. commercial airline fleet with jammers or decoys could cost up
to $10 ...