Spending bill shrinks border fence 

Spending bill shrinks border fence - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California.

The spending bill, written by Democrats and passed 253-154 with mostly their votes, surrenders to President Bush’s budget demands, meeting his spending limit with a $515 billion bill to fund most of the federal government and setting up votes to pay for the Iraq war. But Democrats reached his goal in part by slashing his defense and foreign-aid priorities to pay for added domestic spending.”

How did we know they would try to pull this on us? Congress obviously has no intention of doing what Americans want. We want a double fence with a patrolled road in-between to keep out drug runners, illegals and terrorists. We do not want a single wire fence that anyone can cut through. If congress will not get with the national security program I suggest we replace them all.