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Senate Homeland Panel Approves DHS Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023

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Senate Homeland Panel Approves DHS Bills

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved several authorization bills for the Department of Homeland Security, including a measure directing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to significantly increase electronic scans of the number of vehicles entering the U.S. The Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) Expansion Act (S. 1822) calls for the use of NII systems to screen at least 40 percent of passenger vehicles and 90 percent of commercial vehicles, respectively, entering the U.S. through land ports of…

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