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Senator: DHS reorganization will not hinder spending bill talks
July 19, 2005 Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Miss., said Tuesday that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's plans to rearrange the department would not bog down House-Senate conference negotiations on the fiscal 2006 Homeland Security spending bill. Cochran said the conferees would work with department officials during negotiations on the proposed reorganization and ...
Homeland overhaul would put new focus on telecom
July 18, 2005 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's plans to promote his cyber director and expand the office's portfolio to include telecommunications would put attention and focus on an issue that had been buried in bureaucracy. Chertoff said he would dissolve the emergency preparedness and response directorate and create a wing that addresses ...
Chertoff seeks authority to hire policy czar, alter FEMA
July 18, 2005 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has provided more details about what he is seeking in legislation to permit him to reorganize his department. According to a letter Chertoff wrote Wednesday to lawmakers involved in Homeland Security issues, his reorganization plan partly hinges on Congress authorizing the creation of a departmentwide ...
Bush administration puts supercomputing in spotlight
July 15, 2005 The White House wants government research and development activities in the fiscal 2007 budget proposal to focus on homeland security, high-end computing, nanotechnology and cybersecurity, according to a memorandum by President Bush's top budget and science advisers. Josh Bolten, director of the White House Office of Budget and Management, and ...
Senate nears vote on bolstering rail and transit security
July 14, 2005 Senators are expected to vote Thursday on whether to add $1.2 billion for rail and mass transit security to a bill that would fund the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2006. If senators agree to the provision, it could bust the budget allocation for the $30.8 billion measure. For three ...
Chertoff unveils Homeland Security revamp plan
July 13, 2005 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday announced plans to rearrange and consolidate several agencies at the department -- the first reorganization since the department was created two years ago. "Modest but essential course corrections regarding organization will yield big dividends," Chertoff said, adding he would implement several of the ...
Cybersecurity post elevated under proposed DHS overhaul
July 13, 2005 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday announced plans to rearrange and consolidate several agencies at the department -- the first reorganization of the Cabinet agency since the president launched the department two years ago. Among other things, the proposal calls for dissolving the directorate on information analysis and information ...
Senators attach first responder formula change to spending bill
July 13, 2005 Urban-state senators vowed to fight again Tuesday after they were rolled by their rural colleagues in a dispute to overhaul the funding formula for the nation's first responders. The Senate agreed, on a 71-26 vote, to an amendment offered by Senate Homeland Security Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, and ranking member ...
Urban, rural divide marks debate over security aid
July 12, 2005 The Senate on Tuesday was headed toward contentious votes as urban and rural lawmakers squared off over the funding formula for emergency responders. The issue arose during debate on a bill to fund the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2006. Maine Republican Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security ...
Senate showdown looms over first-responder funding
July 12, 2005 A showdown is developing in the Senate between urban and rural lawmakers who disagree over the federal government's funding formula for firefighters and other first responders. During debate Monday on the $30.8 billion Homeland Security spending measure for fiscal 2006, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, ...
