Senate Confirms New Homeland Security Chief
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Federal judge Michael Chertoff, who  testified against torture and preached the need to protect  civil liberties, won unanimous Senate confirmation on Tuesday  to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department.
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The US Senate confirms Robert Gates as the next defence secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld.
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The Senate confirmed federal judge Michael Chertoff as the nation's second Homeland Security secretary on Tuesday, placing the tough-on-terrorism former prosecutor in charge of a bureaucracy prone to infighting and turf wars.
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Senate Democrats selected Nevada&#39;s Harry M. Reid as the new Senate minority leader replacing Tom Daschle who lost his bid for re-election.
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed US Rep. Porter Goss as the nation&#39;s new CIA director, a daunting role that places the Florida Republican in the middle
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President Bush introduced Former Police Commissioner and military man Bernard Kerik as his choice to be the next cabinet member in charge of Homeland Security on Friday.
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WASHINGTON The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to confirm the nomination of Representative Porter Goss, a Florida Republican, as director of central intelligence.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly confirmed Robert Gates as the next defense secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld, an architect of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.
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The Department of Homeland Security  named an acting U.S. cybersecurity chief on Thursday as  Congress weighed whether to give the position greater clout to  fight hackers, viruses and other online threats.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who yanked embattled Rep. William J. Jefferson off a powerful tax committee last year, has decided to put him on the Homeland Security panel, aides to the Louisiana Democrat confirmed yesterday.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to confirm Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) as the new head of the CIA, brushing aside complaints from some Democrats that he is too partisan and insufficiently interested in reform to head the embattled agency.
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President Bush will announce former  New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik as his nominee to  become homeland security secretary at a White House ceremony on  Friday morning, White House officials said.
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President Bush will announce former  New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik as his nominee to  become Homeland Security Secretary at a White House ceremony on  Friday morning, White House officials said.
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Administration and Congressional officials said Friday that President Bush&#39;s selection of Bernard B. Kerik as the new secretary of homeland security
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Julie L. Myers as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two years after President Bush appointed her to the position amid questions about her qualifications to lead the government's second-largest law enforcement agency.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a massive reorganization of the United States intelligence community to address the Sept. 11 commission's complaints that the nation's spy agencies don't work together properly to deter terrorist attacks    The bill, approved on a 96-2 vote, would create a national counterterrorism center and also a position of national intelligence director who would coordinate most of the nation's nonmilitary intelligence agencies...
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The Department of Homeland Security has named an acting US cybersecurity chief as Congress weighed whether to give the position greater clout to fight hackers, viruses and other online threats.