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...announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism. "Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland-and time to prepare," the President said during a jaunt up to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Heavy spending has been a cornerstone of Bush's 9/11 response, and he geared up for a new threat by asking Congress for $7.1 billion in emergency funding for vaccines and antiviral medicines-even more than...
...Bush opposed a Department of Homeland Security, then supported it as a campaign ploy-and then allowed it to be slapped together carelessly, diminishing the effectiveness of the agencies involved...
...that an agency that is underfunded and saddled with aging equipment--and about the size of the New York City police department--makes disaster response look like just another job, not a quagmire? How did an organization that, like FEMA, had been subsumed by the soul-killing Department of Homeland Security (DHS), remain a place where people took risks? And perhaps most important, can any of these traits be bottled...
...growing responsibilities--remains chronically underfunded. "The Coast Guard is a damn good building block, but you can't expect it to do what it did in Katrina on the current budget model it's on," says Stephen Flynn, a former Coast Guard commander who is now an expert in homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Its assets are falling apart," he says. Of the 41 major naval fleets in the world, the Coast Guard's is the 39th oldest, behind even Pakistan. It is in the middle of a massive, 25-year modernization project, but Flynn says that...
...Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff will testify in front of a Senate committee Tuesday on immigration reform. The issue has divided Republicans, with Bush, John McCain and many business groups pushing for a program that puts immigrants into a guest worker program that would allow them to stay in the country, while many conservatives feel any provision on immigration must first focus on keeping out illegal immigrants...