HUD Worried About Billions In Cuts. How Will They Sue Gunmakers?

> Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo said
>that proposed $2 billion of cuts that the House is
>considering to HUDs fiscal year 2001 budget would have a
>negative impact on communities nationwide. The House
>Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
>agencies made the cuts last week, significantly reducing
>spending on HUD programs compared to the request made by
>President Clinton. The full House is expected to vote on
>the HUD budget in June. The Senate has not yet acted.
> The cuts say NO to gun safety. The American people want
>to reduce gun violence. But the subcommittee’s budget plan
>refuses to fund the community Gun Safety and violence
>Reduction Initiative, a $30 MILLION initiative, funded as
>part of the Drug Elimination Grant program, to help address
>the critical issue of gun violence in and around the
>communities HUD serves.
> The Initiative funds
> 1) Public education and outreach gun ownership and
>addresses the hazards posed by firearms.
> 2) Technical assistance and matching funds to implement
>innovative, performance, driven gun violence reduction
>programs.
> 3) Support for state of the art computerized gun
>violence tracing and mapping partnerships to provide
>critical information about instances of gun-related violence
>to help law enforcement agencies in their gun-violence
>reduction initiatives
>
>{I GUESS THAT WOULD BE SUING GUN MAKERS, RIGHT?}
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