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House Passes Nine Homeland Security Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, March 27th, 2017

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House Passes Nine Homeland Security Bills

The House last week approved nine bipartisan homeland security bills, including one that would establish a five-year term for the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and five dealing with acquisition at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The TSA Administrator Modernization Act of 2017 (H.R. 1309) introduced by Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) would authorize a five-year term for the administrator of TSA, which would assure leadership continuity in the case of a presidential transition. It would also provide for…

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Congress

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