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Homeland Security behemoth. (Insider Report).
Ending a months-long standoff over legislation to create a new Cabinet-level Homeland Security Department, the Senate voted on November 19th to approve the new agency. The new mammoth department will absorb 22 agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Border Patrol, Customs, the Coast Guard, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and will start off with nearly 170,000 employees.
Called the biggest government reorganization in 50 years, eight Senate Democrats voted against the bill: Daniel Akaka (Hawaii); Robert C. Byrd (W. Va.); Russell D. Feingold (Wis.); Ernest F. Hollings (S.C.); Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii); Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.); Carl Levin (Mich.); and Paul S. Sarbanes (Md.). Former Republican Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont, now an Independent, also voted against the bill. Alaska's Republican Senator Frank Murkowski was not present.
"This is just the first step in a long journey," said Sen. Fred Thompson, (R-Tenn.) following the vote. "This thing is going to have to be dealt with for a long time, time and time again." Indeed, and following the standard pattern of uncontrollable growth exhibited by other agencies, the new leviathan and its champions are certain to exert pressure for expanded powers, ...
- Senate critics find homeland security plans lacking.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 10, 2002 700+ words
...proposed Department of Homeland Security came under fire from a top Republican senator yesterday as an inadequate...the Department of Homeland Security. Sen. Richard C...for] improving homeland security," he told "Fox...
- Task Force Wants Congress To Consolidate Its Oversight of DHS.(Department of...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily December 13, 2004 700+ words
...term expertise on homeland security issues and be responsible...the Department of Homeland Security," the task force...Rudman, a former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...committees for homeland security, with jurisdiction...
- Ridge's troubled waters: the labyrinth of homeland security. (Gazette).(Brief...
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Vest, Jason December 3, 2001 700+ words
...created Office of Homeland Security. Its chief, former...Ridge and the whole Homeland Security initiative, this...Connecticut and Republican Senator Arlen Specter of...Department of National Homeland Security Act, which would...
- Washington, states ignoring needs of local governments: while local governments...
- Magazine article from: Government Finance Review Gaffney, Susan Buntman, Jennifer August 1, 2003 700+ words
...revenues, rising homeland security costs, and increasing...last two years is homeland security. The Council on...chaired by former Republican Senator Warren Rudman...6 billion on homeland security needs and in response...
- Look who's listening; Homeland security.(Eavesdropping, torture and Iraq)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 24, 2005 700+ words
...Second, he has been forced to drop his threat to veto an anti-torture amendment sponsored by John McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona. Mr Bush argues that the Patriot Act, which was passed nearly unanimously after the attacks of...
- Republican Senator from Rhode Island, Democrats Push for Security Compromise.
- Newspaper article from: Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) September 25, 2002 700+ words
...they say could be the basis of a homeland security bill President Bush can sign. On...workers in the new Department of Homeland Security. But as Breaux hinted, Chafee got...has stalled consideration of the homeland security bill all month. Still, the announcement...
- The Chaplain Problem: What gives with imams (and others) in the military?
- Magazine article from: National Review O'Beirne, Kate October 27, 2003 700+ words
...Alamoudi's outfit. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, Republican senator Jon Kyl of Arizona has held hearings on Saudi financing of the efforts of the radical Wahhabi sect to...
- Homeland Security Capital Corp. Granted One Year Deferral of Registration...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 1, 2007 700+ words
...PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Homeland Security Capital Corp. , a company...developing and consolidating homeland security-related businesses...its investments in the Homeland Security Capital for another year...
