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Dick Armey leads push for new federal cabinet-leve
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Armey leads push for department
By JAMES KUHNHENN
Knight Ridder News Service
WASHINGTON - When House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a true-blue conservative with a healthy dislike for bureaucracy, first heard of President Bush's plans for a new Department of Homeland Security last month, he reacted in characteristic fashion.
"My knee *," the Republican from Flower Mound said in an interview Thursday. "What? Another Cabinet-level position?"
On Thursday, a converted Armey unveiled his version of legislation creating the department, a 200-page bill that would leave most of the president's requests untouched. Bush's proposed legislation was only 30 pages; Armey's bill contains many more.
Armey's proposal and a similar one moving through the Senate make it likely that by the end of the month Congress will be ready to hand Bush a new Cabinet department that contains virtually all of his key priorities. The special House of Representatives committee that Armey heads will vote on his proposal today or Saturday, speeding it toward a vote by the full House next week, when Armey expects his bill to prevail.
Armey's bill would create a 170,000-employee department to oversee the nation's security against terrorist attacks. In the biggest government reorganization in 50 years, the department would absorb an array of functions and agencies scattered throughout the federal government, including the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the main departure from Bush's plan, Armey would transfer only the Immigration and Naturalization Service's law enforcement and border protection functions to the new department. Bush favors transferring the agency's immigration services to the new department as well.
Armey's proposal would kill Bush administration plans to nationalize driver's licenses. And it would prevent the Justice Department from enacting its plan for a national network of civilian informants called Operation TIPS (for Terrorism Information and Prevention System). http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/world/3695160.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By JAMES KUHNHENN
Knight Ridder News Service
WASHINGTON - When House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a true-blue conservative with a healthy dislike for bureaucracy, first heard of President Bush's plans for a new Department of Homeland Security last month, he reacted in characteristic fashion.
"My knee *," the Republican from Flower Mound said in an interview Thursday. "What? Another Cabinet-level position?"
On Thursday, a converted Armey unveiled his version of legislation creating the department, a 200-page bill that would leave most of the president's requests untouched. Bush's proposed legislation was only 30 pages; Armey's bill contains many more.
Armey's proposal and a similar one moving through the Senate make it likely that by the end of the month Congress will be ready to hand Bush a new Cabinet department that contains virtually all of his key priorities. The special House of Representatives committee that Armey heads will vote on his proposal today or Saturday, speeding it toward a vote by the full House next week, when Armey expects his bill to prevail.
Armey's bill would create a 170,000-employee department to oversee the nation's security against terrorist attacks. In the biggest government reorganization in 50 years, the department would absorb an array of functions and agencies scattered throughout the federal government, including the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the main departure from Bush's plan, Armey would transfer only the Immigration and Naturalization Service's law enforcement and border protection functions to the new department. Bush favors transferring the agency's immigration services to the new department as well.
Armey's proposal would kill Bush administration plans to nationalize driver's licenses. And it would prevent the Justice Department from enacting its plan for a national network of civilian informants called Operation TIPS (for Terrorism Information and Prevention System). http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/world/3695160.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878