GOP Rep. Angering 9/11 Families For Withholding Memorial Funding...

Associated Press KIMBERLY HEFLING April 26, 2006 at 12:47 PM
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Family members of those aboard United Flight 93 are lobbying Congress to persuade a Republican lawmaker to lift his hold on funding for a memorial where the plane crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

Nearly a dozen people were meeting with their members of Congress to encourage them to sign a letter Wednesday that asks Rep. Charles H. Taylor (news, bio, voting record), R-N.C., to support providing $10 million for the project. It was not clear whether they would meet with Taylor, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Interior Department.

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