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House Panel Backs $1B Hike For DOJ, Targets Drug Interdiction at Border

The House version of the Justice Department budget for fiscal 2008 calls for a $1 billion increase in appropriations, citing a rising rate of violent crime that has resulted from six years of Bush Administration erosion of federal support for state and local law enforcement.

The bill, HR 3093, restores federal grants for state and local police to fiscal 2004 levels, boosting outlays 53 percent above the president's request to $3.2 billion.

More than 26 percent of the funding increase would go in direct aid to state and local programs while the balance would assist state and local law enforcement through greater assistance from the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Attorneys' Offices.

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