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    Protecting our homes, families, and communities from all threats foreign, domestic, or natural is of the utmost importance to me. We must be strong and unified with our actions and words. With everything going on in the world today we must not forget that Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network attacked this country. We must do everything we can to hunt him down and rid the world of this terrible menace.  
     
 
Davis co-sponsored and championed the Real ID Act, which President Bush signed into law on May 11, 2005. The legislation makes great strides for immigration reform and improved homeland security by making it tougher for terrorists to abuse our laws.  
 
 
 
The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, administered by the Dept. of Homeland Security, awards grants to local fire departments for equipment, training, and staffing. This program gives our first responders the tools they need to successfully complete their vital mission of protecting the communities they serve and themselves. Davis secured over sixty grants totaling nearly five million dollars for fire departments in the Fourth District.  
 
 
 
Davis voted for the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act, which establishes a new Director of National Intelligence as the president's chief adviser on intelligence. The 9/11 Commission concluded there were severe lapses in coordination of intelligence leading up to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and that the current director of central intelligence, who runs the CIA, is too focused on agency operations and does not exercise the authority needed to coordinate operations throughout the government.