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July 25, 2002
By The Associated Press
Highlights of the compromise anti-terrorism package that Congress approved Wednesday.
-Size: $28.9 billion, compared to $27.1 billion proposed by President Bush. The money is for the federal fiscal year that runs through Sept. 30.
-Defense and intelligence: $14.5 billion. Includes money for troops' pay, National Guard and Reserve expenses, aircraft repairs, modifying snipers' rifles.
-Domestic security: $6.7 billion. Includes $3.85 billion for Transportation Security Administration; $528 million for Coast Guard; $175 million for FBI; $151 million in grants for equipment and training for first responders; $33 million for animal and plant health inspections; $158 million for protection of nuclear weapons facilities.
-New York: $5.5 billion. Includes $2.65 general disaster relief; $1.8 billion to rebuild destroyed transit systems; $783 million for economic redevelopment; $167 million to repair roads; $90 million to study health of World Trade Center rescue workers. Combined with previously provided money, exceeds Bush's pledge to provide $20 billion to the city.
-Foreign aid, diplomacy: $2.1 billion. Includes $200 million for Israel; $50 million humanitarian aid for Palestinians; about $35 million for Colombia; up to $134 million in disaster aid for Afghanistan; $10 million for Muslim exchange students; $1 million to help develop independent news organizations in Pakistan; up to $12 million for Indonesia; $55 million in military aid for the Philippines.
-Other: Includes $31 million for added Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement; $16 million to help northeastern fisheries; $2 million for Smithsonian Institution to buttress security of thousands of animal specimens stored in flammable alcohol.
-Savings: About $3 billion, including cuts from job training, Transportation Security Administration, defense, export assistance, new construction for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
-Other: Drops House-passed provisions boosting Medicare reimbursements for some hospitals in three districts in New York and Pennsylvania where GOP House members face tight re-election races; includes House-passed language helping South Carolina textile interests.
