text: Rudy, lets take a look at the funding. Funding for Diplomatic and Consular Services includes security. Funding, by fiscal year is as follows:  FY 2010 - 6.88 billion, FY 2011 - 8.7 billion and FY 2012 - 10.8 billion. These amounts are total appropriations for each of the mentioned fiscal years and are from the State Departments own budget report. So where was the cuts in funding? What I see is an increase of about 2 billion per year for the Diplomatic and Consular Services as reported by the State Department. I sure wish this fairy tale about republicans cutting funding would go away.