Chemical Facility Security News

The House and Senate return to Washington, rested and refreshed from a very long Memorial Day weekend. Work starts to get serious on spendi...

Today the House Rules Committee web site was updated to announce that HR 2017, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 , is “likely to be ...

Reading the Daily Digest of the Congressional Record this morning it looks like the Senate passed the DHS Spending bill, HR 2017 with the a...

Yesterday I noted that the Senate Appropriations Committee had reported their version of HR 2017, the FY 2012 DHS appropriations bill. I sti...

Yesterday the Senate Appropriations Committee reported on their mark-up of HR 2017, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012...

Yesterday the final version of HR 2017 passed last week by the House became available on the GPO web site. This allows us to better underst...

While the complete record of the floor debate on HR 2017, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012, has yet to be publis...

As of 11:00 pm EDT this evening I have only seen two amendments offered to HR 2017 on the floor of the House that might be of interest to th...

I’ve had more of a chance to review the text of HR 2017 and its accompanying Committee Report so I have a better understanding of the port...

The Senate is taking a week off from their busy debate schedule (technically they’ll meet Tuesday and Friday in ‘pro forma’ sessions) so we ...

Yesterday, Rep. Aderholt (R, AL) introduced HR 2017, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012 . Since it was just published ...