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BROOKLYN, NY – Today, Rep. Michael G. Grimm (R,C-NY) held a press conference in response to the Department of Defense’s plan to eliminate the 24th National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team (WMD-CST), located at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. The cuts were announced as part of the Administration’s FY13 budget proposal, which recommends disestablishing two of the 57 CSTs, specifically in New York and Florida. The CST provides...
The congressman appeared in today’s Staten Island Advance editorial:
The 9/11 attacks made it clear to federal officials that they had to spend a lot of money to protect Americans from terrorism.
But instead of putting money and resources into those places that are obvious terrorist targets, such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles. Congress spread precious counterterrorism money around the nation like it was just another pork...
The congressman appeared in today’s Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
Ryan joined Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Bay Ridge) outside the fort’s main gate on Monday morning, to voice objections to the treatened elimination of one of two National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civic Support Teams now based in New York State. The other civil support team is stationed in Albany.
“I’m not saying that other parts of the country don’t deserve it, but the city of New York...
The following appeared in The Hill:
We are very proud of our legislation designed to protect the online privacy of the millions of internet users in our country. The Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA) was created to prevent employers, schools and universities from demanding usernames and passwords from current employees and students, or prospective ones. This applies to websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, and also...
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Michael G. Grimm (R-NY) led 64 of his House colleagues in sending a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him to appoint an independent or special counsel to investigate MF Global. Many unanswered questions remain regarding what caused the massive shortfall in segregated customer accounts prior to MF Global’s bankruptcy. There are concerns that special treatment was granted to MF Global due to CEO...
