Didn't Republicans Try To Cut The National Weather Service which Tracks Hurricanes?

[Yavin4]

Why yes! Yes, they did:

The continuing resolution passed by the GOP House, the one that just failed in the Senate, reduces funding for the federal agencies that monitor and react to disasters.


The CR is here . According to the House Appropriation Committee's summary of the bill, the CR funds Operations, Research and Facilities for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association with $454.3 million less than it got in FY2010; this represents a $450.3 million cut from what the president's never-passed FY2011 budget was requesting. The National Weather Service, of course, is part of NOAA -- its funding drops by $126 million. The CR also reduces funding for FEMA management by $24.3 million off of the FY2010 budget, and reduces that appropriation by $783.3 million for FEMA state and local programs

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/03/11/gop_s_continuing_resolution_cuts_funding_for_national_weather_service_fema.html

Tsunami Relief And Preparedness Cut In GOP Budget Proposal: National Weather Service
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/tsunami-relief-gop-budget-cuts_n_834479.html

[goclark]

1. As my grandma would say....

" God don't like ugly."

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. PAUL RYAN'S Budget: Its Own Natural Disaster

Upon word that firefighters in the western part of America are using firefighting equipment leased from Canada because of Paul Ryan’s reckless budget cuts, his challenger, Rob Zerban, released the following statement:

“Just as with Paul Ryan’s slashing of the National Weather Service’s ability to accurately predict major weather disasters like hurricanes and, here in Wisconsin, tornadoes, his budget is also leaving our nation’s first responders without adequate equipment to fight out-of-control wildfires, like those burning in Colorado, New Mexico and across the West.

MORE > http://www.robzerban.com/press/paul-ryan%E2%80%99s-budget-its-own-natural-disaster

Biden should hit this hard in Tampa next week

[Blue Meany]

3. Yeah, they were thinking this won't affect us and who care about them n/t