Claim: Steve Scalise Says Ady Barkan asked Joe Biden, “Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding for police?”
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Steve Scalise
text: installing new locks, lights, metal detectors and panic buttons. A separate spending bill would be required to provide money for the grant program. Scalise supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order temporarily banning on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. He stated that "It's very prudent to say, 'Let's be careful about who comes into our country to make sure that they're not terrorists.'" Scalise does not believe that federal funding should support organizations that offer abortions unless the pregnancy threatens a mother's life. Scalise has a "D" rating from NORML for his voting history regarding cannabis-related

title: Trent Kelly
text: Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight, and Regulations. On June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, scheduled for the following day. Also shot were David Bailey and Crystal Griner, a Capitol Police officer assigned to protect Scalise; Zack Barth, a congressional aide; and Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist. A ten-minute shootout ensued between the shooter—James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, a left-wing activist—and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police. Media reports state Hodgkinson began firing from the fence

title: 2017 Congressional baseball shooting
text: the trophy to the Republicans until Scalise finished his recovery. 2017 Congressional baseball shooting On June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, scheduled for the following day. Also shot were Crystal Griner, a U.S. Capitol Police officer assigned to protect Scalise; Zack Barth, a congressional aide; and Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist. A ten-minute shootout ensued between the shooter—James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, a left-wing activist—and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police. Officers shot Hodgkinson,

title: Chuck Schumer
text: funds to protect New York City mass transit. Schumer has been a leader in the fight to continue fully funding the FIRE Grant program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The program allows fire departments and first responders nationwide to apply for grant funding for major purchases that localities have difficulty providing, namely apparatus and emergency vehicles. When the Bush administration pushed a plan to reduce the program from $1 billion to just under $300 million, Schumer helped lead an effort with local firefighters to block the cuts. In 2006, Schumer led a bipartisan effort, with the help

title: Kevin Beary
text: Association. He serves on the D.A.R.E. America Operations Advisory Committee and is past chairman of the National Police Board of G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training). Beary was selected by the American Society for Industrial Security as a member of the Society's International Standing Council on Global Terrorism. After Beary's election in 1992, Marianne Scholer, a former top-ranking woman in the Orange County Sheriff's Office was demoted and reclassified from major to lieutenant. She accused Sheriff Kevin Beary of sexual discrimination and filed a lawsuit which was settled in 1995 against a payment of $76,250. In 2004 and 2005, Beary

title: Joe Biden 2008 presidential campaign
text: a meeting with prominent members of Congress and the solution they came up with was the raise the cap level, he stated that now the same solution would apply and that unity between the two parties was also necessary, "It was Joe Biden, Pat Moynihan, Bob Dole ... [and] George Mitchell when we made that deal [to reform social security]. I'll never forget Bob Dole turning to Pat Moynihan and saying, 'we all got to jump in this boat at the same time.' So the bottom line here is, you can't do it by growing the economy alone. So I

title: 2011 Phoenix mayoral election
text: of the event. In reaction to the snub, Democratic candidate Greg Stanton said that if a Democratic-sponsored mayoral forum was held, he would not attend if Republicans were excluded. Cash on hand As of 12/31/10 Stanton vs. Gullett vs. Mattox vs. Neely, Motorola Group 01/24/11-01/28/11 Candidates Thane Eichenauer, Wes Gullett, Claude Mattox and Greg Stanton attended the first debate of the campaign. Issues covered included public safety, economic development, education, and the issues of the LGBT community. They addressed the status of Public Safety Manager Jack Harris-who was suspended from overseeing the Phoenix Police Department- and the city's subsidy deal

title: 2017 Congressional baseball shooting
text: as scheduled the next day. The annual game has usually attracted a crowd of about 10,000 people, but this year, more than 20,000 tickets were sold, bringing in more than $1 million for charity. David Bailey, one of the two Capitol Police officers injured in the shootout, threw out the first pitch. Relying on crutches because of his injury, he received a standing ovation from the crowd of 24,959 in Nationals Park. Many players of both parties wore Louisiana State University hats with their uniforms as a tribute to Scalise. The Democratic team defeated the Republican team 11–2, but loaned

title: Louise Haigh
text: concerned that forcing police to find more to pay for police pensions out of their general budget leaves less money for the police to protect the public. Haig stated, “Forcing the police at the last minute to bear the huge cost of pension changes demonstrates the utter failure of ministers to grasp the crisis in policing caused by their cuts. They have played fast and loose with public safety and the police are right to step up and take action.” (Police chiefs are suing the government over changes to pension funding) Haig also feels it is wrong that the police

title: 2017 Congressional baseball shooting
text: whether Republicans or Democrats were practicing on the field. Duncan reportedly replied that it was the Republican team. DeSantis later told reporters that both he and Duncan believe that the man was the perpetrator of the shooting, James Hodgkinson. Three Capitol Police officers were present at the practice to protect Scalise, who, due to his House leadership position, has a full-time security detail assigned to protect him. They were posted behind the first-base dugout on that day. The practice had been underway for about half an hour when James Hodgkinson began firing. According to the Capitol Police, he was armed

title: 2017 Congressional baseball shooting
text: podiatrist who also served with the Army's 344th Combat Support Hospital—were able to assist Scalise. Several witnesses said their lives were saved by the presence of the Capitol Police, who were there because of Scalise's position as the House Majority Whip. The Capitol Police immediately engaged Hodgkinson and kept him pinned down, preventing him from continuing to fire on the unarmed baseball players. Rep. Davis and Sen. Rand Paul separately said that if not for the presence of the officers, the incident "would have been a massacre." A tactical squad from the Capitol Police Containment and Emergency Response Team was

title: Steve Scalise
text: for passage given that it was brought up under an expedited process known as Suspension of the Rules. The House voted 407-10 to approve the bill, which would "provide $50 million a year for a new federal grant program to train students, teachers and law enforcement on how to spot and report signs of gun violence". Named STOP (Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing) School Violence Act, it would "develop anonymous telephone and online systems where people could report threats of violence." At the same time, it would authorize $25 million for schools to improve and harden their security, such as

title: Steve Scalise
text: Democratic members of Congress, as well as Mo Elleithee, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, criticized Scalise and challenged his statement that he was not aware of the group's affiliation with racism and anti-Semitism. Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center called upon Scalise to step down from his leadership position as Majority Whip. On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at 7:09am EDT, Scalise and three other people were shot and wounded by James Hodgkinson, a left-wing activist who opened fire with a rifle during a baseball practice of the Republican team for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. The

title: That's Got His Own
text: an offer for further manpower: two CID officers of his choosing. Freamon first approaches Kima Greggs, but then decides not to ask her when she tells him she loves homicide. Mayor Carcetti holds a meeting to discuss the school budget deficit. Nerese Campbell and Andy Krawczyk, the school board president, both refuse to take responsibility. Michael Steintorf, the new chief of staff, suggests that the solution is to scale back their budget in all other areas, but Carcetti refuses to break the promises he had campaigned on and Campbell tells him that the only alternative is to beg the Republican

title: Bob Geary (police officer)
text: subject of columnist Herb Caen, after he wrote a letter to the editor of the "San Francisco Chronicle" defending the police department for issuing too many tickets to taxicabs. Officer Geary was found "not guilty" of writing too many tickets at a public event held in a North Beach theater that featured a stripper in the role of bailiff. In 1988, San Francisco police attempted for budgetary reasons to end its historic horse patrol program for which his then-girlfriend served as a mounted police officer. Geary sponsored a ballot initiative to save the program, which passed with 86 percent of

title: Steve Scalise
text: and Scalise was elected as House Minority Whip, with Kevin McCarthy of California as Minority Leader. While as Majority Whip he was the third-ranking House Republican behind Speaker Paul Ryan and McCarthy, as Minority Whip he will be second in command behind McCarthy. In 2011, Scalise became a co-sponsor of Bill H.R. 3261, otherwise known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (withdrawn January 23, 2012). As chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Scalise dismissed Derek Khanna, a committee staffer, in December 2012 because of pressure from content industry lobbyists after the study committee published a memo advocating copyright reform. In

title: David Miller (Canadian politician)
text: chief David Soknacki initially requested that the police cut $14.2 million from their request, a figure which police chief Julian Fantino argued would jeopardize essential services. After a lengthy and sometimes heated debate, the council voted 40-5 on April 21, 2004, to approve a police budget of $679.1 million. Police spending has increased by $117 million under Miller's administration, and 450 new officers have been put on the streets. In November 2006, Miller stood with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty to announce tougher bail conditions for persons accused of gun crimes. Miller and McGuinty both support Harper's

title: Mike Bost
text: 2017, injuring Steve Scalise, Bost said that his office has previously received phone calls from the attacker. "He's contacted us just about 10 times, on every issue," Bost said. "(He) was argumentative, but never threatening." Bost is a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership and the conservative Republican Study Committee. At a March 2017 meeting with editors of the "Southern Illinoisan", Bost said that he did not do "town halls" because they had become too combative. "You know the cleansing that the Orientals used to do where you'd put one person out in front and 900 people yell

title: Joe Biden 2008 presidential campaign
text: the elimination of tax loopholes for hedge fund managers and private equity partners. The plan would also had increased the SCHIP program to include children 300% above the poverty level. At the October 30, 2007 debate in Philadelphia and the November 15 debate in Las Vegas, Biden was noted for some one-liners that drew some laughter from the audience. First, when speaking about Rudy Giuliani at the Philadelphia debate, Biden stated, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11." At the Las Vegas debate Biden seemed to attack all his opponents when

title: Mike Veale
text: budget cuts are preventing Cleveland Police from providing an effective service for the public. He stated in November 2018 "Forces across the country including Cleveland are more efficient and more effective than ever before, but despite this efficiency the service we are providing the public is nowhere near where it needs to be. (...) The cuts created and caused by austerity are too deep and have gone on for too long. It is about time that trend was reversed. My message is clear; give us the tools and we will do the job." In 2015 Veale authorised the Wiltshire force