Then, there was Obama's equally tone-deaf decision to name Janet Napolitano to head the Homeland Security Department.
They were from local police, the FBI, even the federal Homeland Security department.
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The Homeland Security Department said Napolitano would donate 5 percent of her salary to foundations that benefit Homeland Security staff.
The Homeland Security Department would have six months to create a new border-security plan to achieve the 90 percent effectiveness rate.
This is so serious that either the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department would respond, depending on the type of attack.
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Still hung up by bickering is a bill that initially had significant bipartisan agreement: the creation of a Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department is proposing to replace the five colours with clearer language to describe the threat from terrorism, officials say.
Napolitano said top Homeland Security Department officials are embarking on a multicontinent tour to meet with international counterparts about airline and airport security.
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Obama said he was directing the Homeland Security Department to improve international partnerships to improve aviation security and boost screening at airports around the world.
The news was disclosed to senators at a closed-door briefing with the FBI and Homeland Security Department officials called to discuss Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Daschle said a potential roadblock to passing the proposal would be the roles of the CIA and FBI -- which have been left out of the Homeland Security Department.
After a few years of discussion about whether to upgrade the labs, the homeland security department announced in 2009 that it would move the animal-disease research to a planned Kansas facility.
The Homeland Security Department allocates funds based on what it determines are the cities at greatest risk, with New York topping a list of 10 cities that vie for the largest portion of the money.
The committee voted 35 to 16 in favor of a budget amendment that would prohibit contracts between the Homeland Security Department and non-U.S. corporations and would prevent such companies already under a government contract from receiving extensions.
The most significant revision made to the legislation was the removal of a regulatory section, opposed by Republicans, that would have required companies operating critical infrastructure to meet basic cybersecurity standards established by the Homeland Security Department.
If, as seems likely, the new Homeland Security Department is unable or unwilling to take on this task even though it will be impossible to succeed in its mission without doing so the Congress must fill the vacuum.
White House strategists see an opportunity to paint Democrats who resist the president as soft on terrorism, much as they did after Democrats objected to some aspects of the new Homeland Security Department in 2002, or to the war in Iraq in 2004.
With regard to expansions in federal personnel, they have over the past couple years been disproportionately in the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Through FEMA, the federal government is leveraging assets from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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One of the reasons for this consolidation was that with the transition of so many of its components to the new Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury no longer warranted two IGs.
There has been an increase in the federal workforce over the past few years, which has been in the areas that I mentioned earlier -- the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, for example.
The primary government platform for raising awareness about Internet safety is OnGuard Online, managed by the Federal Trade Commission and involving 16 departments and agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education.
And today, Secretary Napolitano and the Attorney General Eric Holder are formalizing a joint task force between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice that will leverage the investigative capabilities of both agencies to work with Mexico in tracking down the perpetrators.
Though some agencies like the U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been cooperative, other agencies -- like the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services -- have ignored the committee's requests or produced substantially less than was requested, the senator said.
U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, who historically have engaged with communities on a range of public safety issues, are coordinating these Federal engagement efforts at the local level, with support from other departments and agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education.
If there are non-controversial, non-ideological nominees at the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Treasury, that are not going to be opposed either in cloture or in the process, the tradition has been that unanimous consent is provided and an up or down vote, or even a voice vote, is done on these nominees.
On May 28, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department issued a joint statement citing "credible intelligence" of a threat to the nation.
Since the alleged bombing attempt, various agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, have been criticized for not paying more attention to the father's warnings.
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The Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services are all working on ways to empower tribal governments to ensure greater safety in their own communities, and I want to particularly commend Attorney General Eric Holder for his efforts on this so far.
The Bush Administration has created the Department of Homeland Security, while the Defense Department has organized a new Northern Command in which for the first time a combatant commander has the entire continental United States within his area of responsibility.
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