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Congress, DHS News, Border Security & Immigration

By Chris Strohm, CongressDaily

The House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday approved a fiscal 2009 Homeland Security appropriations bill that gives the department $39.9 billion in discretionary spending, including a boost in funding for politically popular grant programs and efforts to find and deport criminal illegal immigrants inside the United States. The bill, approved unanimously by voice vote, gives the department about $2.2 billion more than Congress allocated for the current fiscal year. The funding is also about $2.3 billion more than the department requested. 'We believe that we've put together a very defendable, credible bill,' said House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Price, D-N.C. The bill includes about 100 earmarks totaling about $200 million, primarily in the area of pre-disaster mitigation and emergency operations programs, according to Price and an aide. The subcommittee would not release the list of earmarks and the lawmakers who requested them. Price said the funding for earmarks is about equal to the fiscal 2008 spending bill.

National News, Infrastructure Protection

Penalties created for those who criticize homosexuality outside church walls

.... He said many people simply choose not to believe what's happening.

'I have a hard time believing [it myself],' said Enyart.

DHS News, Border Security & Immigration

By Chris Strohm, CongressDaily

The Homeland Security Department's troubled effort to issue secure identification cards to U.S. seaport workers has experienced new problems, including a dispute between the government and the program's prime contractor over additional funding to resolve technical errors, according to interviews and documents obtained by CongressDaily.

Congress, State & Local News

Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) has asked to have his name removed from a facility he created because he’s tired of being criticized for building a “monument to me.”

.... Doyle is a longtime ally of Rep. John Murtha (D), the dean of the Pennsylvania delegation, and has learned from his mentor how to use earmarks to help spur his western Pennsylvania district’s economy.

The same year Doyle got the first earmark for the Doyle Center, Murtha created the John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security at Indiana University of Pennsylvania by directing $20 million its way.

DoD News, International News

... He said it was hard to imagine that terrorists could obtain nuclear materials from anywhere other than a state.

Asked what the consequences would be for a state that supplied nuclear weapons used in a terrorist attack on the United States, Gates said, “The way we’ve always framed it is the consequences for a state who unleashed a weapon of mass destruction on the United States would be catastrophic.

National News, Enemy & Their Supporters, Other Federal News

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. .... The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the Constitution, but that the system the administration has put in place to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is inadequate. ...

In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called 'the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.'

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