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The Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee (SAC HS) on Tuesday unanimously approved its version of the FY ’15 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), providing $47.2 billion overall and $45.7 billion in discretionary funding. Excluding $6.4 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Relief Fund and $213 million for Coast Guard overseas contingency operations, the discretionary appropriation is $39 billion, $200 million below the recommendation of House appropriators and $688 million more than requested by the…
