A little more security pie

Submitted by markjohnson on June 15, 2009 - 4:13pm.
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The homeland security pie was big enough for House members outside the Triangle to get a piece.

U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield sponsored $600,000 for an emergency operations center in Greenville. U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell secured $650,000 in the bill for a similar center in Scotland County. McDowell Hospital in Marion would get $220,000 for a disaster preparation program, thanks to U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, and U.S. Rep. Howard Coble sponsored $425,000 for disaster preparation in the city of Kannapolis.

Butterfield, Kissell and Shuler are Democrats. Coble is a Republican.

All of the projects depend on the full House and then the Senate passing the homeland security bill.

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