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.

Management

OMB to review contract bundling

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

Reorganization plan gains bipartisan support on Hill

Defense

Personnel reform, but no layoffs, envisioned for new department

No federal employees would be laid off if a 170,000-person Department of Homeland Security is created by consolidating dozens of existing federal offices, the Bush administration said.