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WASHINGTON, DC - While New York City will receive more than $207 million in funds for high-threat cities, up from $47 million last year, more than half of the $2.5 billion in homeland security dollars already announced for this year has been distributed without any basis of threat, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) made available today. Of the remaining $2.4 billion yet to be distributed, only the $315 million in the remaining funds to be distributed by the Urban Area Security Initiative is guaranteed to be distributed solely based on threat. The result will be a lowering in New York’s per capita share of homeland funds throughout the year.
WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) today sent a letter to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, urging the Fed to shorten deposit hold times now that banks can clear checks faster under the new Check 21 legislation. Maloney’s letter was joined by Representative Barney Frank, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, and 23 other members of Congress, including several Financial Services Committee members.
Latest Round of Homeland Security Funding:New York City Does Better, But More Still Needs to be Done
WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Homeland Security has determined the distribution of its state and local homeland security grant programs for FY2005, and while New York will see an improvement, a disproportionate amount of money still goes to states with no real terror threat. The money is generally broken up into two pots - the Urban Area Security Initiative (or “high-threat” grants) and state grant programs. While New York City saw its take of the high-threat money restored to FY2003 levels, the state as a whole continues to suffer from a bad funding formula and bad distribution by the Department of Homeland Security that keeps it far behind states like Wyoming in money allocated per person.
NEW YORK, NY - Today, Congressmembers Christopher Shays (CT) and Carolyn Maloney (NY), Co-Founders of the 9/11 Commission Caucus, joined with family members of those lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center – September 11, 2001 – to urge Congress to stop stalling and act now and pass the “9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act.”
WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan & Queens) has helped secure nearly $1.5 million in federal funding for New York’s world-class cultural institutions this year. The money was passed by Congress on Friday as part of the Omnibus Appropriation bill (HR 4818). The projects receiving federal funding include: