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US Features
Security & Terror: The week ahead
By Shaun Waterman
Jul 26, 2005, 19:00 GMT

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Fall out from the back-to-back attacks in London and Egypt last week is likely to play big in the national security headlines this week, but with no foreign visitors to the White House scheduled and the president`s program dominated by domestic concerns. Congress` final week is also likely to make it onto the news agenda.

On the homeland security front, lawmakers will likely continue their efforts to highlight the need for federal support to city governments on the question of mass transit security in the wake of the London bombings.

Last week, a series of failed amendments to the Senate`s Homeland Security Appropriations Bill attempted to boost funding to mass transit security, but senators balked at moving the cash out of first responder grant programs.

With the money question off the table until the House-Senate conference on the appropriation bill after the recess, and the legislative calendar already overcrowded, oversight and the bully pulpit are all that is left to lawmakers on this issue.

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