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Dear Faxer:

Fax your DEM rep. and express outrage at $3 billion in funding being cut from DoD bill

This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.

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The Senate passed its version of the Department of Defense (DoD) Appropriations bill (H.R. 3222), which included a provision by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to set aside $3 billion for border security, but the House-Senate negotiators, under guidance from the House Democratic leadership, removed the $3 billion in conference.

Please fax your Democratic representative and decry the removal of the $3 billion in border security funds. Let your representative know that House Democratic leadership is leading them astray and against the desire of his/her constituents that Congress adequately fund the border security measures that have been promised.

Background

Sen. Graham sponsored the amendment to the DoD bill with Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), which would:






Provide funding to construct 700 miles of fencing;

Provide funding to procure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), ground sensors, and vehicle barriers;

Increase the ability to detain illegal aliens who overstay their visas and commit other crimes; and

Provide funding for states and localities that undergo training to assist the Federal government in enforcing immigration law.


The Senate voted in October to attach the $3 billion in funding to the DoD bill by a vote of 95 to 1.

Senators Graham, Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Jim Demint (R-S.C.), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), and Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) held a press conference on November 7 to decry the removal of the border security funding from the DoD bill.

“It is outrageous that the leadership yanked this critical funding from the final bill,â€