Conventional wisdom was that Congress would pass and President Bush would sign a bill creating the Department of Homeland Security, most likely by September 2002. The 107th Congress has now recessed for the mid-term elections without passing the bill. If the Republicans do not regain a majority in the Senate in the elections, it is questionable that a lame-duck Congressional session after the elections will pass this bill. It is certainly conceivable that the country may have to start again on this in a new Congress in 2003. The stalemate on the bill, the purpose of which is the security of the United States, is over whether to grant President Bush the broad powers he desires to reassign, hire, and fire people in the 22 agencies proposed for transferral to a Department of Homeland Security. One could be excused for thinking that the substantive issue is security of the country and not union votes.
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