Diaz-Balart: We Must Fund Our National Security Priorities and Hurricane Relief

Diaz-Balart: We Must Fund Our National Security Priorities and Hurricane Relief

WASHINGTON—Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) today voted for the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (H.R. 4939). Diaz-Balart stressed that this supplemental funding is necessary to fund our national security priorities and provide additional assistance for recovery from last year's hurricanes.

"While there are some aspects of this package that I am not satisfied with, we must fund our national security priorities and disaster relief," Diaz-Balart said. "House Republicans are committed to giving our troops the tools and funding they need to protect our families. And just as we are fully invested in continuing to win the War on Terror," Diaz-Balart continued, "we also show in this spending package our commitment to continued recovery from last year's hurricanes."

Among other things, the supplemental appropriations bill will fund the following priorities:

* Armored humvees and tracked vehicles for our troops;

* The procurement and development of countermeasures to prevent Improvised Explosive Devices attacks on our troops;

* Training and equipment for Iraqi and Afghani security forces;

* Increased oversight of war expenditures;

* Repair and reconstruction projects in communities damaged by last year's hurricanes;

* Levee repairs and flood control projects.

http://www.house.gov/mariodiaz-balart/news/2006news/031606_supplemental.htm