The Department of Homeland Security is seeking money and employees to secure U.S. borders under President Bush’s budget, while raising airline passenger fees, as a Senate panel endorsed a new leader for the agency.Monday’s $34.2 billion budget request for 2006 also proposes reorganizing state and local funding formulas to give the most money to high-risk areas. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, meanwhile, endorsed Michael Chertoff’s nomination as the department’s secretary, 14-0, with Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., voting “present.”Full Story
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