The state?s congressional delegation is assailing a federal grant for security improvements to the Port of Baltimore. Announced on Wednesday, the port was awarded $1.9 million for security infrastructure improvements in the most recent phase of homeland secuity grants ? down from $4.8 million in the last phase ? an amount that Rep. Elijah Cummings called too low.

“I am deeply concerned that the shifting criteria for the award of security grants and the lack of funding for the grant program are leaving unmet needs not only at the Port of Baltimore but at all of our nation?s ports,” he said.