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Statement on the President's Budget President Bush today took an important step forward in placing community readiness at the forefront of our nation's agenda by making it a priority in his proposed budget. As organizations representing the nation's front lines of response in any community disaster, we applaud the President's leadership and commitment to community preparedness. Since September 11, we have learned that new threats require new levels of community readiness. Today's budget is a first step on that objective. But strengthening our nation's community readiness will require efforts more akin to a marathon than a sprint. We urge national policymakers to support this initial investment and to build upon it. To prepare our communities for any disaster that may come our way, we need a sustained investment in the nation's public health and emergency departments, hospitals, fire services, ambulance and emergency medical services organizations, and the medical and nursing professions. We pledge to work with federal policymakers to help determine the most immediate areas of focus as we work together to strengthen the safety and security of our nation's communities. The provisions outlined by the President today firmly set us upon that path. The Partnership for Community Safety: Strengthening America's Readiness represents firefighters, paramedics and other EMS professionals, emergency physicians, all other physicians, hospital officials, medical education professionals, public health officials, nurses and state regulatory agencies in the United States. For more information, contact the following Partnership members:
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