According to their policy, the resulting revenues should be allocated to social security spending.

Then the economy turned sour, taxes were cut and security spending was increased after the terrorist attacks.

The $37.7 billion request reflected about a 7 percent jump for domestic security spending.

It would match the House Republican plan on military and domestic security spending.

Lawmakers have lost no time in putting security spending and tougher criminal penalties near the top of their agenda.

Biloxi has also been helped by another reaction to Sept. 11: the increase in military and security spending.

Transit officials have long insisted, as they did yesterday, that details about their security spending and strategies must be kept from the public.

Many states have already begun to set limits on security spending.

Most debt was accumulated as a result of tax cuts and increased national security spending.

Those figures fall well short of the $1.4 billion a year in new security spending recommended last month by the independent accountability review board.