Inouye Announces Funding to Improve Tsunami Warning System

摘要

The U.S.Senate Appropriations Committee recently approved legislation that included over US17 million to improve the nation's tsunami warning system,announced U.S.Senator Daniel K.Inouye(D-Hawaii)."This funding will be a solid down-payment,and it will allow us to begin the broad expansion that our bill advocates," said co-chairman of the Commerce Committee Inouye."We must continue to press for [U.S.] Senate and House approval of our blueprint to modernize and expand the entire system,and we need to secure additional funds to make those improvements a reality."