New security-cash push for ’08 DNC

Another congressional effort to gain the $50 million Denver says it needs for security during the 2008 Democratic National Convention is in play.

The House was to consider late Monday an appropriations bill that includes $100 million to be divided between Denver and St. Paul, Minn., which is hosting the Republican National Convention.

Although appropriations requests already exist in both House and Senate bills, the budget process has been stymied in part by the Iraq war funding debate.

Meanwhile, Denver officials are concerned that if security funding isn’t locked in by year’s end, they will have to begin spending the millions necessary to prepare for the security effort.

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