The Senate killed an amendment to the national security bill (S-4...
The Senate killed an amendment to the national security bill (S-4) that would have put more money into first responder grants affecting some emergency communications programs (CD March 6 p1), on a 50-49 vote late Tues. Sen. Leahy (D-Vt.)…
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led the fight for the amendment, one of 3 aimed at changing the formula for distributing federal grants. Leahy favored an approach that would help small and mid-size states get bigger shares of the pie, raising the state share of overall federal funding from the proposed 0.45% to 0.75%. Sen. Feinstein’s (D-Cal.) amendment would have cut per-state allotments to 0.25%, as a House bill (HR-1) proposes. Feinstein’s amendment failed 56-43. Sen. Obama’s (D-Ill.) amendment, which failed 59-40, would have kept the formula at 0.45% for border states, setting interior state funding at 0.25%. S-4 proposes setting interoperability communications funding for all states at 0.75% of federal funding.