Congress Hopes to Raise FBI Funding to $4.3 Billion; Compromise Comes After Senate Call For Bureau Cuts From: The Washington Post | Date: February 10, 2003| Author: Dan Morgan | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Congress is preparing to increase funding for the FBI this year despite a blistering Senate critique last month that questioned whether taxpayers have gotten their money's worth from $1 billion in budget increases for the bureau since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Senate version of a more than $390 billion government-wide spending bill, which was passed last month, proposed cutting the FBI's budget in 2003 by at least $206 million, and a little-noticed report accompanying the measur...