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Senate Rejects Series of Efforts to Boost Homeland Security Funding.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
By David Lightman, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 26--WASHINGTON -- The Senate this week rejected a series of Democratic-led efforts to boost homeland security funding, with some proposals losing on close votes in which Joe Lieberman and some other presidential candidates could have made the difference.
A bid to provide more grants to high-threat urban areas, for instance, lost on a 48-48 tie. Lieberman, D-Conn., who was touring a Sikorsky Aircraft plant in Stratford, did not vote, nor did Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and John Edwards, D-N.C.
Democratic Whip Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced that Kerry would have voted yes, and said Lieberman and Edwards were absent.
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