[This committee will be involved with many computer security issues and
$500,000,000 a year (to start) in "homeland security technology" funding,
if my memory is correct. Worth watching. --Declan]
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News From . . .
The Homeland Security Committee
Christopher Cox, Chairman
Jim Turner, Ranking Member
<http://cox.house.gov>
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
Chairman Cox Announces Homeland Security Committee Members
Top-Level Appointments Underscore Importance of Department's Mission
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)-Homeland Security Committee
Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) and Ranking Member Jim Turner (D-TX) today
announced the members of the Homeland Security Committee. The members were
appointed by Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) based on their substantive expertise in the many
areas such as intelligence, cybersecurity, border and port security, public
health, and emergency preparedness that together comprise the mission of
the newest Cabinet department.
The Committee will coordinate all House oversight of the Homeland Security
Department in the House of Representatives. It will also exercise
exclusive legislative jurisdiction over the Homeland Security Act that
established the Federal department tasked with protecting the United States
from terrorist attack.
"The impressive group of legislators who will comprise this
Committee-including the Chairmen of the most significant committees in the
Congress-underscores the importance we attach to protecting our citizens
and our country," Chairman Cox said. "Every member of the Committee, on
both sides of the aisle, will work to ensure that the largest
reorganization of the U.S. government in over half a century accomplishes
its objective: keeping Americans safe."
Majority Members of the House Homeland Security Committee:
Rep. C.W. Bill Young (FL)
Rep. Christopher Shays (CT)
Rep. Curt Weldon (PA)
Rep. Dave Camp (MI)
Rep. David Dreier (CA)
Rep. Don Young (AK)
Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA)
Rep. Ernest Istook (OK)
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (WI)
Rep. Harold Rogers (KY)
Rep. Jennifer Dunn (WA)
Rep. Jim Gibbons (NV)
Rep. John Linder (GA)
Rep. John Shadegg (AZ)
Rep. John Sweeney (NY)
Rep. Kay Granger (TX)
Rep. Lamar Smith (TX)
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL)
Rep. Mac Thornberry (TX)
Rep. Mark Souder (IN)
Rep. Pete Sessions (TX)
Rep. Peter King (NY)
Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL)
Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (VA)
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (NY)
Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin (LA)
Minority Members of the House Homeland Security Committee:
Rep. Robert E. Andrews (NJ)
Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (MD)
Rep. Donna M. Christensen (VI)
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (OR)
Rep. Norman D. Dicks (WA)
Rep. Bob Etheridge (NC)
Rep. Barney Frank (MA)
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (TX)
Rep. Jane Harman (CA)
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX)
Rep. James R. Langevin (RI)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA)
Rep. Nita M. Lowey (NY)
Rep. Ken Lucas (KY)
Rep. Edward J. Markey (MA)
Rep. Karen McCarthy (MO)
Rep. Kendrick B. Meek (FL)
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ)
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (CA)
Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY)
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (MS)
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