Two Senate appropriators want to include a provision in the fiscal year 2006 defense appropriations bill requesting a study on how a natural disaster in any given state could trigger a National Guard response from adjacent states. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have discussed when the National Guard should go into neighboring states where a disaster might occur, Stevens said today during the subcommittee's mark-up of the FY-06 defense...
