In the Middle East, President Bush is proposing the same kind of nation-building effort he criticized the Clinton administration for undertaking in the Balkans.
The Office of Management and Budget has halted nearly $150 million in technology projects dealing with management systems at agencies slated to move into the new Homeland Security Department, OMB Director Mitch Daniels announced in a memorandum Tuesday.
The high-tech industry may get what it wished for in the proposed Homeland Security Department, as most of its top priorities have been included in the bills now before Congress.
