Deparment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005 -- (House of Representatives - June 17, 2004)

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hastings of Washington). Pursuant to House Resolution 675 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 4567.

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Mr. SHERWOOD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of words. I rise against the amendment. My district is 150 miles from New York City. I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge. I understand what the infrastructure is to the East, and I understand also a little bit about the threat. But this formula has been pretty carefully worked out on population and threat. If you are going to take $450 million away from the rest of the country and give it to metropolitan New York, how are you going to do that? You would have to take $35 million away from California. You would have to take $4 million away from the District of Columbia. I think that this is probably one of the high-threat areas. You would have to take $15 million away from Illinois. I think Chicago is probably a pretty high-threat area. You would have to take $14.75 away from my home State of Pennsylvania. On and on and on and on.

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This thing has been worked out. I admire the pluck of my friends from New York to try to get the money for what they think they need it but the whole country needs the money. The sheet that shows us where the $450 million will come from will be on the table.