Homeland Security&#39;s Personnel Rules Overhaul Will Proceed Without ...
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The departure of Tom Ridge as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security will not slow plans to overhaul rules for how thousands of Homeland Security employees are paid, promoted and disciplined, a top official said yesterday.
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Our position is: The homeland security chief leaves behind an organization in need of correction and refinement. As the first boss of the Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, who resigned Tuesday, was
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The US House of Representatives cleared the way on Tuesday for passage of a sweeping overhaul of US intelligence agencies after a long wrangle and mounting pressure from families of Sept.
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Many pressure groups that have grown accustomed to getting their way on Capitol Hill have found their initiatives shelved this year as lawmakers focus on security-related matters and rush to leave town to campaign for reelection.
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CAPITOL HILL Many House Republicans says the intelligence overhaul bill doesn&#39;t go far enough to make the nation safer. House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner says states need to be prohibited
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The reform legislation, set to be signed into law on Friday, has created a personnel challenge for the Bush administration which must fill a range of new senior positions as it embarks on the task of making a new superstructure work.
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NCOs without insignia due to cost-cutting bungle
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The House of Representatives easily passed a sweeping restructuring of the US intelligence community yesterday, removing the final obstacle to the most substantial overhaul of the nation&#39;s spy apparatus in 50 years.
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But it's not going to the president's desk yet, as the House still has to approve the changes. The current ban is scheduled to expire next week.
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Surprising even the White House, President Bush&#39;s nominee for Homeland Security secretary abruptly withdrew his candidacy last night, saying
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White House and congressional leaders yesterday broke a logjam that has stymied major legislation to restructure the nation&#39;s intelligence operations by putting
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Fears of a new September 11 have drowned out talk of civil liberties in the US election campaign even though the attacks led to legislation that campaigners say gave the government vast unchecked powers.
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Bernard Kerik, President Bush&#39;s choice to be secretary of homeland security, has withdrawn his name from consideration, the White House announced late Friday.
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President Bush reserved the right to ignore key changes in Congress's overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- including a requirement to appoint someone with experience handling disasters as the agency's head -- in setting aside dozens of provisions contained in a major homeland...
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The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security, creating a "gaping hole" in the nation's preparedness for a terrorist attack or other threat, according to a congressional report to be released today.
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The problem with President Bush&#39;s National Guard years is not that he took shortcuts, but that he won&#39;t come clean about it.
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With the departures last week of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, it became