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...first glance, President-elect Barack Obama's pick for his Secretary of Homeland Security looks a lot like the person currently holding the job. Governor Janet Napolitano is a former prosecutor who cares more about immigration and border security than almost anything else. But Napolitano will be very different from Secretary Michael Chertoff in two major ways. First, she is a notch to the left of Chertoff on immigration matters, having repeatedly criticized the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and having opposed state bills targeting illegal immigrants. Still, as governor of Arizona, she knows more about...
...Napolitano's other obvious distinction is that, as a governor, she can be expected to have much more sympathy for states, which have felt disrespected and excluded under a top-down approach to homeland-security issues since 9/11. "The trust between federal, state and locals is just not there," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. Governors, including Napolitano, have protested the costs of REAL ID, a 2005 law passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country...
...remains unclear whether Napolitano hopes to move FEMA out of DHS. That's an option advocated by many emergency-management experts since the Katrina debacle, but the Homeland Security transition manual published this month by two think tanks, including the one led by Obama transition chief John D. Podesta, recommends shelving that decision until late...
Thomas E. Perez, who is also a Kennedy School alum, will work with the Justice, health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and urban Development departments. Clark Kent Ervin ’80 will review Department of Homeland security transition issues...
...signaled” his interest in retaining Lieberman’s vote, while Sen. Chris Dodd is reluctant to weaken Connecticut’s power in the Senate. So Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has decided to let Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As that title might indicate, this is an impossibly important committee, which, according to Senate Rule XXV, deals with everything from United States Archives to the compensation and benefits of all U.S. employees. Reid and the Democrats did revoke Lieberman’s subcommittee chairmanship, but this amounted...