Local Congressmen Upset About Anti-Terror Funding Cuts

WASHINGTON -- Several congressmen from the Washington area aren't happy with the Department of Homeland Security's plan to cut the region's anti-terror funds.

The group, which includes Virginia U.S. Reps. Jim Moran and Tom Davis, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Maryland U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, has sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff requesting an explanation for the cuts across the region.

The letter contends that the Washington area has $190 million in "documented needs" and said that the $46 million that has been allocated to the region "falls dangerously short of what is necessary."

But the Washington area isn't the only high-profile place seeing a drop in security funding. Homeland Security has also decided to reduce anti-terrorism funding in New York City by $83 million.