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Senate panel passes $30.8 billion homeland security bill
June 17, 2005 The Senate Appropriations Committee easily approved $30.8 billion in discretionary funding Thursday for the Homeland Security Department and its programs next year. The bill would provide $389 million less than the Bush administration requested, primarily because it does not include language proposed by President Bush to raise airline ticket fees ...
Businessman, officials spar over withdrawn contract
June 16, 2005 An embattled homeland security contractor on Thursday testified before Congress that his company did no wrong, while the government inspector that exposed the alleged misconduct stood by his findings. The inspector general offices at the General Services Administration and the Homeland Security Department and the FBI are investigating potential wrongdoing ...
Defense research aims to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
June 15, 2005 As the House moves closer to approving defense spending for fiscal 2006, tucked inside its bill are imaginative, scientific projects like building vehicles that glide like birds and slither like snakes, helicopters that transform into jets, and computers that heal themselves after attacks. The innovative projects are just a few ...
First-responder funding snipped to fund border security
June 14, 2005 Senate appropriators on Tuesday bolstered funding for border security by shifting money from grant programs for police officers, firefighters and other first responders. The Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee agreed by voice vote to make the changes to President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget proposal. The full Appropriations Committee is slated ...
Three Homeland Security panel members mull run for chairmanship
June 9, 2005 The race to become the next House Homeland Security chairman began to accelerate Wednesday with three GOP panel members publicly mulling the job. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, and Republican Reps. Peter King of New York and John Linder of Georgia said they are considering running for ...
Homeland panel critic arises as its possible chairman
June 2, 2005 House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, who frequently fought to limit the power of the Homeland Security Committee, could end up as its chairman. The House approved the Homeland panel's permanent status in January despite objections from powerful committee chairmen, most notably Young, who finagled a post on ...
House aims to refocus agency's counterterrorism role
June 1, 2005 The House has cut funding for the Homeland Security Department's intelligence wing as part of a bureaucratic overhaul that would result in diminishing the department's role in counterterrorism. The fiscal 2006 House Homeland Security spending bill, approved last month, would cut $5.8 million from the information analysis and infrastructure protection ...
House panel authorizes State Department funding
May 27, 2005 The House International Relations Africa Subcommittee Thursday approved legislation to authorize the State Department and its programs as well as international aid initiatives over the next two years. The bill would authorize $1.5 billion for embassy security and construction overseas; $1 billion for United Nations peacekeeping efforts and $652 million ...
GAO, panel find inadequate inspection of foreign cargo
May 26, 2005 The Homeland Security Department is not adequately inspecting cargo and containers headed for the United States from foreign seaports, according to Government Accountability Office findings released Wednesday and a separate Senate panel investigation. Two GAO reports and a 20-month congressional investigation into the department's efforts to secure cargo and containers ...
House subpanel OKs $57 billion for Justice, Commerce and State
May 24, 2005 The House Science, State, Justice and Commerce Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday approved $57.5 billion in discretionary funding for federal law enforcement, NASA, trade, science and other programs next year. The bill would increase funding for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, ...
