Senate Subcommittee Marks Up DHS Spending Bill

Yesterday the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up their version of the FY 2012 DHS spending bill. There is no publicly available record of the markup or the bill but the Committee did publish a summary. The bill would provide less money than the FY 2011 authorization but much more than the bill the House passed in June.

According to the summary the Senate bill would increase Coast Guard funding, restore grant programs eliminated by the House bill, significantly increase cyber security spending and restore many of the S&T programs eliminated by the House.

There is no specific mention of chemical security matters, but I think we can safely assume that there is the now standard one year extension of the CFATS program.

Senate Panel to Markup HR 2868

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee announced today that the markup hearing scheduled for July 28th, 2010 will look at HR 2868, not S 2996 or S 3598. No further details are available at this time on the Committee web site.

Senate App Comm to Markup FY2010 DHS Appropriations

According to the Senate Appropriations Committee web site both the Homeland Security Subcommittee and the Full Committee will hold markup hearings this week on the Department of Homeland Security FY2010 Appropriations Bill. The Subcommittee Hearing will be chaired by Sen. Inouye (D,HW) on June 17th at 2:00 pm EDT while Chairman Byrd is in the hospital. The Full Committee Hearing will be held on June 18th at 3:00 pm EDT.