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Senate panel backs Coast Guard reauthorization bill
August 3, 2007 The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a Coast Guard reauthorization bill Thursday that includes funds for ice-breakers, oil pollution prevention and alien smuggling enforcement, as well as funds for the Coast Guard's troubled modernization program. The $8.2 billion Coast Guard reauthorization bill (S. 1892) was approved by voice ...
Senate bill creates DHS management post
August 2, 2007 A bill approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday would establish a top management office in the Homeland Security Department. The bill (S. 547) would create the position of deputy secretary of Homeland Security for management, to serve as a principal adviser to the secretary of ...
Bill to target waste in contracting moves to Senate floor
August 1, 2007 The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill Wednesday aimed at increasing competition and reducing waste in government contracting. "With federal contract purchases now exceeding $400 billion a year and with the alarming waste we have discovered through our investigations, the need for vigorous reform of our ...
Whistleblower protection bill gains Senate panel’s approval
June 14, 2007 The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a measure Wednesday aimed at strengthening federal employee whistleblower protections. The legislation (S. 274), approved by voice vote, would clarify language in the 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act to state that whistleblowers are protected by law for any disclosure regardless of whether ...
House subcommittee authorizes center to study bio-threats
June 7, 2007 A Homeland Security subcommittee approved a bill Wednesday to authorize the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to study infectious diseases and biological threats to humans and animals. The House Homeland Security Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology Subcommittee approved the bill (H.R. 1717) by voice vote. The bill would ...
DHS science chief vows more accountability, innovation
March 29, 2007 Armed with promises of increased accountability -- and a table full of props -- the head of the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate told lawmakers Wednesday that his realigned agency would better serve the nation's security needs than it has previously. Former Adm. Jay Cohen appeared before the ...
IRS chief cites progress toward closing tax gap
February 14, 2007 Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mark Everson told the Senate Budget Committee Wednesday that the agency is making progress to close the $345 billion gap between taxes that are owed and what the agency collects. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., expressed some consternation that the administration's proposals for closing the ...
