Word: homelands
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...hearings on Wednesday, members of Congress sharply questioned Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on the possibility of virtually sealing off the border with Mexico. Said Republican Senator John McCain in a statement, "I continue to believe that all available options to end this crisis must remain under consideration, including closing the border if it would prevent further transmission of this deadly virus...
...states have confirmed cases of swine flu, including a death in Texas, but all 50 have already requested their portion of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of antiviral medications, according to the CDC. (The SNS, maintained jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's emergency medicine chest, containing critical drugs and medical equipment to be used in a public-health emergency.) Although the stockpiled antiviral drugs can treat existing cases of flu, a vaccine is the only way to protect people who are uninfected and halt further spread...
...Technical Workers—which pegged Kidd as part of the anti-union administration. In 2005, Kidd’s relationship with student groups was again thrust into the spotlight after she threatened to shut down a planned student protest of the presence of CIA and Department of Homeland Security recruiters on campus, only to later abandon that position. But this past fall, Kidd reminded the student body of the College’s free speech protections after several members of the Harvard Right to Life group reported that their posters had been vandalized. Kidd said that in the future...
...Washington, while being rejected, thus far, by the Administration. "The public needs to be aware of the serious threat of swine flu, and we need to close our borders to Mexico immediately and completely until this is resolved," New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said earlier this week. Across the aisle, San Diego Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter suggested that all nonessential border traffic be shut down. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...time, health officials have been quick to stave off unnecessary panic. "This is obviously a cause for concern," said President Barack Obama in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences on Monday morning. "But it's not a cause for alarm." That message was echoed by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, the lead federal official on swine flu, as well as WHO officials and just about every other official connected to the global flu response who spoke to the public on Monday...