The Bush Administration has had many policies change or get reprioritized in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Bush's policy on the military has been greatly affected. It is now up at the top of the list. I'm going to look for spending changes and changes in border security. Border security and the Coast Guard are going to be my main focus. The Coast Guard plays an important role in border security and drug enforcement along the coast of the United States.
             I'm also going to look up my Senator's reactions to the Bush Administration's policy on Border security. I live in Tampa so one of my Senators is Bob Graham. He has already sponsored some bills in response to the attacks of September 11, that agree with the Bush Administration's new policies on homeland security. On an issue like this there really isn't much controversy on the security of our nation, except for what organizations should be responsible and where funding would come from.
             The President stated in his State of the Union address about the war on terrorism, "It costs a lot to fight this war. We have spent more than a billion dollars a month -- over $30 million a day -- and we must be prepared for future operations. Afghanistan proved that expensive precision weapons defeat the enemy and spare innocent lives, and we need more of them. We need to replace aging aircraft and make our military more agile, to put our troops anywhere in the world quickly and safely. Our men and women in uniform deserve the best weapons, the best equipment, the best training -- and they also deserve another pay raise." (President Bush State of the Union Address 2002) This is also being applied to the Coast Guard for the Administration's homeland security policies; after all they are a branch of the military too, and much of the responsibility of border security lies on the Coast Guard's shoulders. The President also stated in...