“The measure also includes a provision to increase the fee paid by travelers who enter the U.S. by commercial sea and air carriers by $2 to $9, using the revenue to pay for 1,000 new customs agents. The measure funds the government’s newest Cabinet department and is free of contentious issues that dot many of the other 11 spending bills. It increases the budget for Customs and Border Protection by 4 percent and increases funding for detention of people entering the country illegally. The bill’s chief author, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who faces a difficult re-election campaign this fall, included $318 million to build six fast response Coast Guard cutters at Bollinger Shipyards in her home state.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-panel-oks-47b-homeland-security-budget-24318416
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