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January 11, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Fire Administration (USFA) have awarded the Dupont Fire Department more than $116,000. This one year grant was awarded to enhance their effectiveness by purchasing breathing apparatus, protective clothing and the funds will also be used for increased survivor training.


January 7, 2004

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) will be traveling to Honduras January 10th - 15th, 2004 to study the impact of sustainable development on Honduras and Central America. During his trip, sponsored by Global Partnerships and the Seattle Initiative for Global Development, Smith will meet with several groups, public officials, and NGO leaders to examine the range of issues, opportunities and challenges facing America's relationship with Honduras and this critical region.


January 7, 2004

The three co-chairs of the House New Democrat Coalition, Representatives Jim Davis (FL-11), Ron Kind (WI-03), and Adam Smith (WA-09), issued the following joint statement on the 2nd anniversary of the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act.


December 11, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) is pleased to announce that the SeaTac City Fire Department received a federal grant totaling $136,665. This grant money will be used to improve the department's technology and will also allow the department to purchase a GPS tracking system that will be used to track firefighters during an incident. This is the second year in a row that the SeaTac City Fire Department was awarded funds to improve their technology.


December 7, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) announced his dissatisfaction with the passage of the seven-bill, $ 820 billion Fiscal Year 2004 omnibus spending package. The thirteen annual appropriations bills are usually reviewed and passed individually, but for a second year in a row there has been one Omnibus spending package that funds most of the governments operations. When passing an Omnibus instead of the individual bills, the package tends to include many harmful riders and not focus on fiscal discipline.


November 20, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) announced his decision to vote against the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003. Prescription drug coverage in this bill is discontinuous and leaves many seniors paying a monthly premium while not receiving any benefits. After the initial coverage limit of $2,200, beneficiaries are forced to pay 100 percent of the cost until total drug spending reaches approximately $5,100, after which the plan will pick up the majority of costs. This confusing patchwork quilt of coverage results in an insufficient program for beneficiaries.


November 12, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) is pleased to announce today that the Department of Homeland Security, through the Urban Area Security Initiative, has given the City of Seattle and Sound Transit more than $17 million to help enhance their overall security and preparedness level to prevent, respond and recover from acts of terrorism.


November 6, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) is disappointed that the Republican majority failed to pass fully-funded concurrent receipt and eliminate the Disabled Veteran's tax. A Democratic motion to recommit, proposed during consideration of the fiscal year 2004 Department of Defense authorization bill, would have eliminated the law which reduces a veteran's retirement benefit on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the amount the veteran receives in disability compensation. The measure would have fully funded both benefits to veterans. It failed by a vote of 217-188.


November 4, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) is pleased to congratulate the King County Sheriff's Office, the Green River Task Force and King County Sheriff Dave Reichert on solving the nation's largest serial killer case. Over the last 20 years, detectives have worked through thousands of tips, followed up on missing women cases, collected thousands of pieces of evidence and eliminated potential suspects.


October 26, 2003

Congressman Adam Smith (D-Tacoma), along with seven other members of the Washington state delegation have signed a letter to the chairmen of the Congressional appropriations committees that in the final version of the supplemental appropriations bill extending TRICARE medical insurance coverage to National Guard and Reserve members who are unemployed or otherwise have no employer-provided health insurance coverage.