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House Approves Several Homeland Security Bills

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Friday, June 20th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The House on Wednesday approved seven new homeland security bills covering areas such as covert bomb testing, bomb prevention and respond, and biometrics, that the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security hopes to have included in a House and Senate authorization bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this year. Among the measures approved by the House is H.R. 5982, The Biometric Enhancement for Airport-Risk Reduction (BEAR) Act of 2008, which requires the Transportation Security…

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