Defense
Ridge to testify, within limits, on Cabinet creation plan
President Bush Friday affirmed his intention to dispatch Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to Capitol Hill as an advocate for Bush's plan to establish a new Cabinet-level Homeland Security Department.
Defense
White House discusses new agency with federal union leaders
White House officials met with the leaders of the two largest federal unions on Friday to talk about how the proposed creation of the Department of Homeland Security would affect federal workers.
Defense
Few details, many challenges for new security agency
The Homeland Security Department proposed by the Bush administration is nothing if not bold. The new Cabinet-level agency focused on protecting Americans from terrorist attacks would dwarf most federal agencies in size and assume many non-security functions as well.
Pay & Benefits
The loneliest number
How many federal workers got student loan help from Uncle Sam last year?
Defense
Bush proposes massive overhaul of homeland security agencies
In what would be the biggest restructuring of government since World War II, President Bush proposed Thursday to move seven entire agencies and offices from several others into a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security.
Defense