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Opening Statement of Senator Susan M. Collins, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Opening statement of Senator Susan M. Collins (R-ME) to open a hearing entitled, Recovering from Hurricane Katrina: Responding to the Immediate Needs of Its Victims.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2005-09-28
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U.S. Senate Request for Documents from Alabama Department of Homeland Security, A letter from Chairman Susan M. Collins and Ranking Member Joseph I. Lieberman to Alabama Director of Homeland Security Jim Walker
This letter requests that the Alabama Department of Homeland Security and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency provide the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs specific information and documents to aid the Senate investigation into the Nation's preparedness for and response to Hurricane Katrina.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2005-09-28
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Testimony of Pete Wilson, former Governor of California, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Testimony before a hearing entitled, Recovering from Hurricane Katrina: the Next Phase. Wilson details lessons learned by California officials following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake and the 1997 floods throughout the State.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2005-09-14
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Testimony of Patricia A. Owens before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Testimony of Patricia A. Owens, former Mayor of Grand Forks, North Dakota before a hearing entitled, Recovering from Hurricane Katrina: The Next Phase. Owens details the response and recovery efforts of Federal, State, and local officials during the April 1997 flood in Grand Forks.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2005-09-14
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Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Chemical Attack on America How Vulnerable are We?
Senator Corzine discusses the need for oversight with respect to both fixed assets such as chemical production facilities, and the transport of hazardous products.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2005-04-27?
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Summary of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) is a 235-page Act of Congress, introduced by Maine senator Susan M. Collins and signed by President George W. Bush, that broadly affects United States federal terrorism laws. The act comprises several separate titles with varying subject issues. It was enacted in response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. [...] This act established both the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2004-12-06
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Protecting Unaccompanied Alien Children from Trafficking and Other Abuses: The Role of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
This is a Staff Report of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. This Report addresses concerns regarding the thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) that arrive in the U.S. annually: "Each year, thousands of UACs enter the United States, unaccompanied by their parents or relatives and are taken into U.S. custody. Congress has tasked the Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with finding appropriate homes in which to place UACs temporarily pending the resolution of their immigration proceedings. Through procedures described below, HHS attempts to place each UAC with a suitable adult sponsor--someone who can care for them and ensure their appearance at their immigration hearings. [...] Over a period of four months in 2014, however, HHS placed a number of UACs in the hands of a ring of human traffickers who forced them to work on egg farms in and around Marion, Ohio, leading to a July 2015 federal criminal indictment. [...] The Subcommittee sought to determine whether the Marion placements were caused by a tragic series of missteps or more systemic deficiencies in HHS's UAC placement process. The Subcommittee reviewed 65 case files of UACs placed by ORR, including 34 UACs whose files contained at least some indication of human trafficking or other neglect or abuse, and a sample set of 28 other UACs placed with sponsors who were not close relatives. Based on that investigation, the Subcommittee concludes that HHS's policies and procedures were inadequate to protect the children in the agency's care."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Security and Savings: The Importance of Consolidating the Department of Homeland Security's Headquarters at St. Elizabeths
This is a Majority Staff Report of the United States Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. From the Executive Summary: "In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, our nation recognized grave short-comings in our security. To address them, Congress passed the Homeland Security Act, which pulled together 22 different agencies to form the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to foster a more unified and coordinated effort to defend our homeland. […] Today, DHS still operates out of more than 50 separate facilities in the Washington, DC region, many of which are physically inadequate. The current infrastructure used to house DHS has made it much more difficult to implement the vision behind the Homeland Security Act and create the collaborative approach envisioned. What motivated the effort to create the Department on paper--merging separate agencies with responsibility for security and response under one agency with a common set of goals--still does not physically exist today. As a result, the Department's ability to accomplish its mission, promote employee productivity, and communicate within its components remains difficult. We need to fix this."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Stronger Neighbors - Stronger Borders: Addressing the Root Causes of the Migration Surge from Central America
"In the spring of 2014, tens of thousands of children and families from El Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras - known as the Northern Triangle of Central America - arrived at the southwest border of the
United States seeking protection and a safe place to live. Many of these migrants were fleeing conditions
of severe violence, deprivation, and death. Some, after a treacherous 1,500-mile journey through Mexico,
did not arrive at all.
The surge was also a costly
logistical challenge, as the
numbers and unique needs
of the migrants overwhelmed
Border Patrol agents, shelters,
detention facilities and the
immigration courts. The
federal government struggled
to find suitable shelter and legal
support for the unaccompanied
minors, in particular.
Since that spring, the Obama
Administration (herein after
'the Administration') has put
into place an array of measures
to manage the heightened
migration from the Northern
Triangle. Those efforts - and
those of the governments
of Mexico and the Central
America - initially served to
reduce the flow at the U.S.
southwest border. However,
thousands of migrants
continue to take the dangerous
trip north and the numbers
reaching the United States have
been steadily rising again."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Fueling an Epidemic: Inside the Insys Strategy for Boosting Fentanyl Sales (Report Four)
"During the height of the prescription opioid crisis in the United States, Insys Therapeutics, Inc., adopted and intensified sales and marketing techniques Purdue Pharma pioneered in the 1990s for OxyContin and applied them to Insys' powerful fentanyl drug Subsys. Like Purdue, Insys aggressively used speakers programs--in which the company paid physicians to discuss Subsys with colleagues--and compensation programs for sales representatives to boost sales for Subsys [...] This report also highlights the examples of Heather Alfonso, a nurse practitioner from Connecticut, and Dr. Steven Simon, a physician practicing near Kansas City, Missouri--two practitioners separated by geography but united in their high Subsys prescribing and receipt of substantial payments from Insys. These case studies demonstrate exactly how company executives motivated sales representatives to 'own' physicians through promises of compensation for both sides--and how these efforts in turn significantly affected patient treatment."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
