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Don't Brief the Trump Team: How the GSA and the FBI Secretly Shared Trump Transition Team Records
From the Executive Summary: "This majority staff report tells an important, yet overlooked, story about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Office (Special Counsel) secretly sought and received access to the private records of Donald J. Trump's presidential transition team, Trump for America, Inc. They did so despite the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the Trump transition team and the General Services Administration (GSA)--the executive agency responsible for providing services to both candidates' transition teams--that those records were the transition team's private property that would not be retained at the conclusion of the transition."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
2020-10-23?
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Chemical Insecurity: An Assessment of Efforts to Secure the Nation's Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Threats
"This report identifies fundamental problems in the design, implementation, and management of the CFATS [Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards] program, finding: (1) CFATS is not reducing our nation's risk of a terrorist attack on domestic chemical infrastructure. The program focuses on the wrong threats, shifts risk to other parts of the chemical sector and supply chain, and is unable to determine if it is improving security at the facilities it regulates. […]; (2) DHS does not know whether some dangerous chemical facilities exist. Because of the way the program is structured, facility's initial reporting to DHS is largely on an honor system, with little way for DHS to identify facilities that do not report. […]; (3) CFATS regulates the wrong facilities. Designed to focus on the chemical plants at high risk of terrorist attack, the success of CFATS depends on an accurate understanding of facilities' risk. […]; (4) The CFATS program is failing to meet key deadlines, validate security plans, and conduct compliance inspections. According to the GAO [Government Accountability Office], it may be seven to nine years before CFATS catches up with a backlog of reviewing facilities' security plans and conducting inspections to verify compliance with security requirements. […]; (5) CFATS creates a massive regulatory burden for the companies it covers. Despite doing little to reduce risk, CFATS is costly to the companies it regulates, forcing them to dedicate time and money they don't have to fulfill onerous administrative requirements that dwarf those of other agencies. […]; (6) DHS is not transparent about how the CFATS program works and creates an adversarial relationship with the companies it regulates. DHS makes the process of working with companies adversarial, assuming the worst about the private sector -- that left to their own devices companies would eschew security and ignore the threat of terrorism just to increase profits."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Coburn, Tom A.
2014-07?
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H1N1 Flu: Getting the Vaccine to Where It Is Most Needed, Hearing before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, November 17, 2009 [video]
This recorded video feed is from the November 17, 2009 hearing, "H1N1 Flu: Getting the Vaccine to Where It Is Most Needed," before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. From Joseph Lieberman's opening statement: "We hold this hearing on the HINI flu against the backdrop of two crucial numbers going the wrong way - more flu deaths than previously realized and fewer vaccine doses than originally promised. This has led to understandable public frustration and anger mixed with confusion over just who should get vaccinated, with states and even individual cities and counties creating different priority lists. It has also led, I'm afraid, to some of the highest risk individuals, such as pregnant women and children with asthma waiting in those long lines for vaccine shots that ultimately were not available. And it has created anxiety, sometimes fear, among parents going on wild goose chases, trying to get vaccine for their children their government says they need but that they, the parents, can't find." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Joseph I. Lieberman, Susan M. Collins, Anne Schuchat, Nicole Lurie, and Alexander G. Garza.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
2009-11-19
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Money Laundering and Foreign Corruption: Enforcement and Effectiveness of the Patriot Act: Case Study Involving Riggs Bank: Report Prepared by the Minority Staff of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, Released in Conjunction with the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' Hearing on July 15, 2004
"From 1999 to 2001, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, at the request of Senator Carl Levin, Ranking Minority Member, conducted a detailed investigation into money laundering activities in the U.S. financial services sector, including in-depth examinations of money laundering activities in private banking, correspondent banking, and the securities industry. Two Minority staff reports were issued, and Subcommittee hearings were held in November 1999 and March 2001. This investigative work provided the foundation for many of the anti-money laundering provisions in Title III of the USA Patriot Act enacted in October 2001. Among other key provisions, the Patriot Act obligated U.S. financial institutions to exercise due diligence when opening and administering accounts for foreign political figures, and deemed corrupt acts by foreign officials as an allowable basis for U.S. money laundering prosecutions. In 2003, again at Senator Levin's request, the Subcommittee initiated a followup investigation to evaluate the enforcement and effectiveness of key anti-money laundering provisions in the Patriot Act, using Riggs Bank as a case history. The information in this Minority Staff Report is based upon the ensuing joint investigation by the Subcommittee's Democratic and Republican staffs."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
2004-07-15
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Letter From Susan M. Collins and Joseph I. Lieberman to Asa Hutchinson, [October 28, 2003 ]
Port security and container transportation are seen as critically important for the safety and security of every person living in the United States, as well as being highly beneficial to economic stability. The increasingly forgotten realm of ports as a security concern has caused increasing alarm, and has continually pressed the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to react. This letter requests a detailed description of what CBP has done, and plans to do in the future in regards to understanding where additional work is needed.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Collins, Susan, 1952-; Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-28
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Lieberman Seeks Investigation of Ricin Response
Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., asked for an investigation into troubling Postal Service and law enforcement delays in responding to the discovery of a letter containing the poison ricin at a Greenville, S.C., postal facility. Lieberman said he would ask the General Accounting Office to determine why no concerted effort to monitor postal
employees' health was made immediately after the envelope, containing the word "ricin" on it, was discovered; why the envelope was not immediately transferred to the Centers for Disease Control for testing; and why the facility was not tested for contamination until a week after the suspicious package was discovered. The GAO is currently analyzing, at Lieberman's request, the handling of the anthrax attacks at all affected postal facilities. Lieberman said he would ask GAO to expand its investigation to include a look at the circumstances surrounding the Greenville ricin incident.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-24
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Lieberman to White House: Speed Up Document Production for September 11th Commission
Amid escalating evidence the Administration is impeding the work of the commission investigating the September 11th terrorist attacks, Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., recently called upon White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card to ensure that the commission's document requests are met. The Commission has complained about slow document production from a variety of agencies including the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, despite a mechanism set up by Card whereby agencies funnel documents through the White House.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-17
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Democrats Seek Security Training for Flight Crews
Seven Democratic Senators, concerned that airline flight attendants have been left unprotected in the event of a terrorist incident, pressed Wednesday for mandatory and specific security training for flight crews. In a letter to Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., and Ranking Member Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., the Senators noted that despite three legislative efforts in three years, flight crews have not received proper self-defense instruction nor training on how to handle a possible hijacking. The signers asked that language be restored to the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthoritzation Act (H.R. 2115) conference report to require the Transportation Security Administration to establish minimum standards for flight crew
security training.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-15
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Lieberman Pushes for Bio-Terror Preparedness on Second Anniversary of Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., recalled the anthrax mailing to then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle two years ago, reminded taxpayers Tuesday that the federal government has taken only nominal steps toward protecting the nation from bio-terror attack. Lieberman successfully advocated emergency funding for the Postal Service to decontaminate their facilities and requested an investigation into the handling of the anthrax attacks at all affected postal facilities. To address broader biomedical shortcomings, Lieberman and Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, first introduced legislation in December 2001 that would encourage the development of countermeasures needed to protect the nation from biological attack as the bioterror threat evolves to new and different pathogens.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-14
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Lieberman says DHS and Department of Education Should Work to Prepare Schools for Terrorist Attacks
Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said Friday the Administration has failed to deliver emergency planning guidance to America's schools and he called on the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education to take adequate steps to ensure that schools are prepared for terrorist attacks. Lieberman wrote that schools are also concerned that proposed cuts to the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS) programs, which fund many school safety officers, will exacerbate the problem. DHS has teamed up with the Department of Education to provide an emergency planning website but NASRO officials contend that schools are largely unaware of this material.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-10
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Lieberman, Jeffords, Seek Plans for Protection of Water, Other Vital Services
Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Environment and Public Works Ranking Member James Jeffords, I-Vt., urged Administration officials Wednesday to improve the security of our water delivery and supply system and to develop emergency plans for a catastrophic event - to avoid the kind of service interruptions, or worse, that occurred following September's Hurricane Isabel and August's widespread power outage. The two Senators rebuked the Department for failing to assess many infrastructure vulnerabilities - including the centrally important water supply - much less devise protective measures and develop emergency response plans necessary to ensure vital services for hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of citizens following a catastrophic terrorist attack or cataclysmic natural disaster.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-10-08
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State and Local Officials: Still Kept in the Dark About Homeland Security
America's safety demands that state and local officials, especially law enforcement and public safety professionals--our front line defenders--are fully engaged in the war against terrorism. Yet almost two years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) Minority staff found that these officials are being asked to fight the war against terrorism with incomplete and unreliable access to one of the most potent weapons in the homeland security arsenal: information. State and local first responders and first preventers still do not systematically receive from the Bush Administration the information they need to prevent or respond to another catastrophic terrorist attack, nor does vital information flow effectively from them to the federal government. These information gaps pose a significant challenge for the federal government and leaves the American people at unacceptable risk. This report contains the results of a staff investigation conducted at the request of Senator Joe Lieberman, Ranking Member of the Governmental Affairs Committee. Senator Lieberman asked GAC Minority staff to review the information needs of state and local officials and assess the progress of the Bush Administration in meeting those needs. Staff interviewed officials on the front lines in the fight against terrorism, while also reviewing reports, hearings, and other public information.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
2003-09-13
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S. Prt. 108-33: State and Local Officials: Still Kept in the Dark About Homeland Security, Report Prepared by the Minority Staff of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, August 13, 2003
"America's safety demands that state and local officials, especially law enforcement and public safety professionals--our front line defenders--are fully engaged in the war against terrorism. Yet almost 2 years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) Minority staff found that these officials are being asked to fight the war against terrorism with incomplete and unreliable access to one of the most potent weapons in the homeland security arsenal: information. State and local first responders and first preventers still do not systematically receive from the Bush Administration the information they need to prevent or respond to another catastrophic terrorist attack, nor does vital information flow effectively from them to the federal government. These information gaps pose a significant challenge for the federal government and leaves the American people at unacceptable risk."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
2003-08-13
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Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing on President's Proposal for Terrorism Threat Integration Center: Testimony by Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, February 14, 2003
Congressman Joe Lieberman's February 14, 2003 Testimony before the Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing on President's Proposal for Terrorism Threat Integration Center expressed support for the proposal. Lieberman stresses the need "to 'connect the intelligence dots,' to create a full picture, so that we can understand what our adversaries are up to before their plans are carried out." Lieberman also poses several questions regarding the proposal.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
2003-03-14
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[Letter to the Honorable Don Nickles and Kent Conrad: Budget Resolution FY2004]
This letter, prepared by Susan M. Collins and Joseph I. Lieberman, requests additional funding for the Coast Guard's Deepwater Project in order to upgrade and replace the Coast Guard's aging fleet. The premise for this request lies in the assertion that our nation's ports and waterways remain vulnerable to terrorist attack.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Collins, Susan, 1952-; Lieberman, Joseph I.
2003-03-12
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Letter to The Honorable Tom Ridge, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, from Joseph I. Lieberman, July 9, 2003
This letter expresses Senator Lieberman's deep concern over the Administration's failure to address the serious gaps that exist in transportation security outside the field of passenger violation.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
2003
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Government at the Brink: Volume II. An Agency by Agency Examination of Federal government Management Problems Facing the Bush Administration
The purpose of this report is to draw attention to these problems and highlight the urgent need to resolve them. The report lays down some markers on where we are today and what needs to be done to fix the management mess in Washington.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Thompson, Fred
2001-06
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Government at the Brink: Volume I. Urgent Federal government Management Problems Facing the Bush Administration
The purpose of this report is to draw attention to these problems and highlight the urgent need to resolve them. The report lays down some markers on where we are today and what needs to be done to fix the management mess in Washington.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Thompson, Fred
2001-06
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Report to the President: The Crisis in Human Capital. Report prepared by Senator George V. Voinovich. U.S. Senate Government Affairs
The Senate Committee on Government Affairs discusses problems facing the federal government in managing its human capital. It aims to identify the barriers that inhibit the effectiveness of federal employees, and offers changes that must be made to allow employees to maximize their talents.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Voinovich, George V.
2000-12
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Stubborn Things: A Decade of Facts About Ballistic Missile Defense
While National Missile Defense (NMD) stirs emotions today, the decisions of policy makers must be based upon the facts rather than on "our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions...." This report then traces with facts the path from comity between the US and Russia under the Bush administration to distrust between the two countries that developed during the Clinton administration. This report notes several trends, among them the Clinton administration's denial of the emerging ballistic missile threat and reluctance to come to terms with a changed environment; its chronic under-funding of ballistic missile defense programs, beginning with sharp reductions early in its first term, and exacerbated by additional cuts in the Democrat controlled Congress; its emphasis on arms control over military capability; and its opposition to the missile defense initiatives of the post-1994 Republican Congress. The failure of the Clinton administration to consider seriously any technologies for NMD other than those most superficially compatible with the ABM Treaty is also documented. The result is a proposed ground-based missile defense that is the nearest-term answer to the emerging ICBM threat.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Cochran, Thad
2000-09
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United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs [website]
"The jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs includes the following subjects - Department of Homeland Security (except matters relating to: The Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, or the Secret Service); Any customs revenue function including any function provided for in section 415 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296); Any commercial function or commercial operation of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection or Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including matters relating to trade facilitation and trade regulation; or Any other function related to the above items that was exercised by the United States Customs Service on the day before the effective date of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296)."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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