HOMELAND SECURITY...PART ONE

This is just at a glance...finding the text and provisions of the bill are pretty difficult. But I like research. So I'll keep at it.

Major agencies transferred to Homeland Security:

Coast Guard

Customs Service

Border Patrol

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Secret Service

Transportation Security Administration

Border inspection part of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Labor provisions:

The agency is required to first negotiate any workplace changes with the employees union.

The president can waive union rights for national security but only after he notifies Congress and waits 10 days.

The bill also:

Allows commercial airline pilots to carry guns in cockpits.

Allows a one-year delay in the Dec. 31 deadline for airports to install explosive detection systems to screen all checked baggage.

Allows the agency to do business with American companies that move offshore to avoid U.S. taxes if there are national or economic security reasons to do so.

Transfers the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from the Treasury Department to the Justice Department to better perform its law enforcement responsibilities.

Expands federal planning for domestic preparedness and recovery from terrorist attacks to include not just Washington, D.C., but also the adjacent suburbs as well.


Source: Associated Press