Feingold Urges Committee to Support Valuable Law Enforcement Byrne Grants
Posted at 15:22:54 on April 14, 2004
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold's office put out a release today (read the full release here). Here's an excerpt:
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold today joined a bipartisan group of his Senate colleagues in asking the Senate Appropriations Committee to overturn the President's decision and fund a resource for law enforcement grants known as the "Byrne Grant program." The President's proposed budget for next year cuts the Byrne Grant program completely. The letter Feingold sent with his colleagues asks that the committee to keep the Byrne Grant program by funding it at the $659 million level it was funded at this year. The President also tried to cut Byrne Grants last year, but Feingold and some of his colleagues were part of a similar effort that helped to save the program.
"These grants are a valuable resource for many communities in Wisconsin and throughout the country," Feingold said. "I believe that we must keep grant programs like Byrne up and running so that law enforcement officials are able to get the resources they need to continue combating crime."
- Trae
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