XXXX Voted Against Shifting $88 Billion From Bush’s Tax Cuts to Homeland Security. In 2003, XXXX voted against increasing homeland security spending by $88 billion over ten years. The package included $35 billion more than the Bush plan for direct grants to state and local governments to hire, train and equip first responders and pay for overtime; $11 billion for firefighters and equipment; $10.3 billion to restore cuts to federal law enforcement grants; $7.8 billion for port security and an increase of $8 billion for the Transportation Security Administration to improve aviation, rail and truck security. [Vote 65, 3/21/03; Post-Standard, 3/21/03] XXXX Voted Against $3 Billion for Homeland Security. In 2003, XXXX voted Against $3 billion for homeland security, including $750 million for border security, $200 million for security at nuclear facilities, $850 million for smallpox vaccinations for first responders, $200 million to improve communication between first responder agencies, $1.1 billion for aviation security and $100 million for FEMA. [Vote 3, 1/16/03; AP, 1/16/03] XXXX Voted Against $5 Billion for Homeland Security. In 2003, XXXX voted against adding $5 billion in homeland security spending, including $1.4 billion in grants to states and local governments. Democrats sought to add the homeland security funding to the $390 billion government-wide spending bill, which covered the 11 non- defense fiscal 2003 appropriations bills that Congress did not enact in 2002. [Vote 2, 1/16/03; AP, 1/16/03] XXXX Voted To Pass The $4.6 Billion Public Health Security And Bioterrorism Response Act. In 2002, XXXX voted for a bill fighting bioterrorism. The bill would address core public health concerns associated with preparedness for and effective response to bioterrorist attacks and to other public health emergencies. Additionally, it would enhance controls on dangerous biological agents and toxins and would increase measures to protect the safety and security of food, drug, and water supplies. The vote was on the conference report to accompany the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Response Act. [HR 3448, Vote 124, 5/23/02] XXXX Opposed $35 Billion for Homeland Security Programs. In 2001, XXXX voted against an amendment to provide $35 billion to respond to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks that followed, including $7.5 billion for homeland defense programs and $7.5 billion in recovery funds for areas in NY, VA and PA that were directly affected by the attacks on September 11, 2001. The amendment was defeated 50 to 50. “Eager to keep their stamp on the government’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks, Democrats came back hours later with a $20 billion alternative, the level Bush wanted. That package received preliminary approval from the Senate on a voice vote.” [HR 3338, Vote 357, 12/7/01; Associated Press, 12/07/01] XXXX Voted Against $7.5 Billion For Homeland Security. In 2001, XXXX voted to kill an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill to add $7.5 billion for homeland security programs. [HR 3338, Vote 354, 12/6/01] XXXX Voted Against Redirecting $850 Million For Programs Including 2002 Winter Olympics Security, Into Military Readiness And Personnel. In 2001, XXXX voted to table an effort to redirect almost $850 million from a variety of non-defense programs, including security for the 2002 Winter Olympics, into military readiness and personnel. The amendment would increase the amount appropriated for defense personnel accounts, operation and maintenance accounts, and procurement accounts by $847.8 million and would fully offset that increase by making rescissions in non-defense accounts. Non-defense programs that would be cut included $60 million in subsidies for job training and security preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. [S 1077, Vote 226, 7/10/01; Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, 7/10/01; Associated Press, 7/10/01; Los Angeles Times, 7/11/01] PORT SECURITY AND COAST GUARD XXXX Voted Against Scanning All Cargo in 2007. In March 2007, XXXX and Senate Republicans voted to kill Sen. Schumer’s proposal to fully scan all cargo entering U.S. ports from foreign seaports within five years. Under the proposal, cargo from the largest foreign ports would have had to be scanned within three years. [Vote 56, 3/1/07; CQ Weekly, 3/2/07] XXXX Voted Against Fully Screening Incoming Cargo at U.S. Ports. In September 2006, XXXX voted to kill a proposal to scan all overseas cargo for nuclear or “dirty” bombs by October 2010, with shippers paying the cost of 196