As the House debated, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously for its $31 billion emergency spending measure, ignoring White House objections to the increased spending and including more money than Mr. Bush requested for domestic security.
House Republicans cut $128 million in fiscal year 2011 and an additional $331 million in fiscal year 2012 from what Secretary of State Clinton requested for embassy security.
The citizen journalist, Ali Mahmoud Othman, was the head of the media center in Homs, according to CNN, and was thought to be at a secure military unit in Aleppo, added the activist, who requested anonymity for security reasons.
Farmers are intimidated into selling their land and offered cash sums they can't refuse, according to a cattle rancher with land in Meta who requested anonymity for security reasons.
It's very disturbing," the blogger, who requested anonymity for security reasons, told HuffPost.
"In the streets you see ISIS' foreign fighters more than you see Raqqah's own residents," said an activist from the opposition Tahrir Syria group, who requested anonymity for security reasons.
Officials would not disclose when the campaign made the request for security or how long it has been considered.
That brought a strong retort from Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., who accused Republicans of hypocrisy, saying they had cut administration requests for security funding and then made political hay out of the inevitable results.
American officials, including Mr. Brennan and Gerald M. Feierstein, the American ambassador to Yemen, say the administration will consider Yemen's requests for security assistance case by case once Yemen submits a long-term strategic plan for how it plans to address threats from Al Qaeda.
