Port Security Bill Boosts Transit Security Gets Funding
Efforts to increase funding for port and transit security got a big boost Sept. 14 when the Senate voted unanimously to approve the Port Security Improvement Act of 2006. The bill authorizes nearly $3.3 billion for port security during the next six years and $3.5 billion for transit security over the next three years.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R- Tenn.) praised the bi-partisan effort to plug "the holes in our porous borders."