The administration has not supported the funding for physical fitness equipment as part of the fire grant program. Physical fitness is an individual responsibility.

Despite the scoring, the results are absolutely in accord with our risk assessment.

There's nothing that would restrict a city from allocating funds to a church or synagogue that faces a grave danger or risk. We have always said we have felt this was redundant and unnecessary.

Each exercise has gotten larger. So it's fair to say this drill will include more participants and likely more cost, as well.

This year, we identified 66 ports that we view as the greatest risk, and only those were eligible to apply for the funds. Not all 66 were funded.

We are reaching out to those congressional offices to make sure they are aware that those (military) installations are factored into the equation.

We do not have any reason to believe there are inaccuracies but we've agreed to make sure our data matches their data.

It is hard for us to know right now whether or not the localities have over-invested or under-invested. Once we have this document and a national plan, we can see how they've been spending their money.

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Since Sept. 11th, we've provided more than ten billion dollars in funding to states and urban areas for these types of measures.