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Shaheen on the road to push for Homeland Security funding

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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, in those days when she's been home in the Granite State recebtkt, has been meeting with various groups to press for continued funding of the Department of Homeland Security.

“It’s time for Congress to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the rest of this year with a clean funding bill, free of unrelated and extraneous provisions,” Shaheen said in a recent statement. “An agency shutdown would not only set back New Hampshire companies that support jobs and security efforts, but would create serious national security consequences.”

The Associated Press reported that if Congress fails to agree to a new budget for the department by the end of Friday, inaction by lawmakers would lead to staff furloughs numbering 30,000 that could harm the U.S. response to terrorist threats and warnings, such as the one late Saturday that names Minnesota's Mall of America. In additionl, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said up to 80 percent of Federal Emergency Management Agency workers would be furloughed as that agency contends with two months of devastating snowfall and cold from New England to the Mountain States.

Shaheen is the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security for the current Congress.

In February alone, Shaheen sat down with various groups in different parts of the state to emphasize her support of full funding for Homeland Security. She met with companies in Manchester and Tilton to emphasize her support for total funding of Homeland Security, and she met in Claremont with law enforcement representatives, in New Castle with the U.S. Coast Guard, and in Portsmouth with firefighters. Another meeting with law enforcement was scheduled for Feb. 23 in Hampton.



 

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