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NATIONAL JOURNAL’S TECHNOLOGY DAILY
A new report from the U.S. and Canadian governments outlines issues and challenges associated with implementing new border security requirements under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, but it concludes that those requirements still should go into effect.
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Chris Strohm,
NATIONAL JOURNAL’S TECHNOLOGY DAILY
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee have asked the Homeland Security Department to explain how much time and resources it spends in reporting to congressional committees and responding to congressional inquires.
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Fawn Johnson,
CONGRESS DAILY
When the Senate returns next week, the business community will watch the immigration debate with trepidation, not wanting to scuttle the bill’s movement while at the same time calling for fundamental changes.
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Chris Strohm,
CONGRESS DAILY
Lawmakers who support giving states the power to pass and enforce chemical security laws that are stricter than federal regulations might have lost one battle last week, but are now considering the fiscal 2008 Homeland Security appropriations bill for the next step in their campaign.
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Shane Harris,
NATIONAL JOURNAL
On November 2, 2004, top officials from the Homeland Security Department held a small Election Night party at a Washington restaurant to watch the presidential election returns come in on television. Nearly every leader there owed his job to the man then fighting for his own job — George W. Bush.
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Chris Strohm,
CONGRESS DAILY
Homeland Security Department officials are doing a complete evaluation of government policies for information-sharing, handling watch-list alerts and having trained medical personnel at major ports of entry after a 31-year-old lawyer from Atlanta was able to come across the border from Canada this week with a dangerous form of tuberculosis.
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Chris Strohm,
CONGRESS DAILY
Former Border Patrol chiefs and agents on Monday ripped the Senate’s immigration bill as being unrealistic and technologically unfeasible, and instead offered a six-part plan for increasing border security, removing illegal immigrants and overhauling the immigration system.
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Michael Martinez,
NATIONAL JOURNAL’S TECHNOLOGY DAILY
Commerce Department officials on Monday outlined how a federal grant program for public safety communications will be implemented. The department’s National Technology Information Administration, in consultation with the Homeland Security Department…
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