http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/07/17/dhs-approps-passes-the-senate/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:40:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/07/17/dhs-approps-passes-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-11155 Homeland Security Watch » Explosives detection R&D: the DHS record Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:36:46 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/07/17/dhs-approps-passes-the-senate/#comment-11155 [...] The phrase “forcing lawmakers to rescind” is a bit facetious. While it’s true that DHS S&T’s performance has been problematic in many respects, nobody forced Congress to rescind this money during the FY 2007 appropriations process. Congress made a deliberate decision to increase funds for state & local grant programs by raiding S&T’s budget last month. As I noted several weeks ago, “The increases in funds for these programs are made by increasing a rescission to DHS’s FY ‘06 science & technology budget and cutting the DHS management budget respectively - both questionable judgments, in my opinion.” [...] [...] The phrase “forcing lawmakers to rescind” is a bit facetious. While it’s true that DHS S&T’s performance has been problematic in many respects, nobody forced Congress to rescind this money during the FY 2007 appropriations process. Congress made a deliberate decision to increase funds for state & local grant programs by raiding S&T’s budget last month. As I noted several weeks ago, “The increases in funds for these programs are made by increasing a rescission to DHS’s FY ‘06 science & technology budget and cutting the DHS management budget respectively - both questionable judgments, in my opinion.” [...]

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/07/17/dhs-approps-passes-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-9090 EmergencyTech.org » DHS Appropriations Pass Senate Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:44:25 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/07/17/dhs-approps-passes-the-senate/#comment-9090 [...] Via HLSW Budgets & Spending, Homeland SecurityThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] Via HLSW Budgets & Spending, Homeland SecurityThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

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