
A House panel on Thursday marked-up three homeland security bills designed to modernize the national emergency alerting system, strengthen the use of social media in disaster response, and to bolster interoperable communications capabilities among components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bills were introduced with bipartisan support and were approved unanimously by voice vote by the House Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee for consideration by the full committee. The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System…