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Carry a smaller stick. (Politics).(analysis of 'Assessing the Department of Homeland Security in the July 2002 issue of the Brookings Institution by Ivo Daadler and others)
Ivo Daadler et al., Assessing the Department of Homeland Security, July 2002, The Brookings Institution (brookings.org)
Big government made a resounding return to Washington this summer as the White House unveiled a mammoth proposal to create a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect the nation from terrorist attacks. In what would be the largest reorganization of government in over 50 years, the White House plan calls for the creation of a new Cabinet-level department, pulling together over 200,000 government employees from 22 different existing agencies with a budget of $37.5 billion.
The Brookings Institution's report, Assessing the Department of Homeland Security, says that creating a DHS is a good idea but questions the wisdom of merging "too many different activities into a single department, including many that have little day-to-day connection with one another."
The authors of the report favor the creation of a smaller, more focused DHS, one that would incorporate fewer employees and agencies and concentrate on only those "areas where major organizational reform is clearly desirable and possible" Under the ...
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...United States by sea, but Homeland Security officials want the trucking...in the United States. Homeland Security Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson...Hanlon , who authored a Brookings Institution study on homeland security. To see more of The...
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...studies at the Brookings Institution and former...and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor...safety and homeland security markets...joining the Brookings Institution, where he focuses on homeland security, national...
Source: HighBeam Research, Carry a smaller stick. (Politics).(analysis of 'Assessing the...