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The House ethics committee is investigating complaints by a fired Homeland Security Committee employee, who alleged that a lobbyist made improper requests to the panel chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
North of Camden's waterfront concert hall, a dingy white boat bobbed in the rain on a recent cloudy afternoon.
So how dumb is this? Congress wants to know how unin vited fame-and-glory seekers Tareq and Michaele Salahi managed to crash last month's state dinner for the prime minister of India -- and the White House is stonewalling. Pretty dumb. The ...
The White House tried to put the whole Salahi incident to rest Wednesday night.
Washington -- Three Secret Service agents have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into how two uninvited guests managed to crash President Barack Obama's first state dinner last week, the director of the service said Thursday.
A Winter Storm Warning is in effect Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. for Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto and Waller counties. The National Weather Service says those areas are likely to get 1 inch of snow, and accumulations of 2 to 4 inches are possible. School closings and cancellations Submit your winter weather photo HOUSTON—If you look at ...
BRUNSWICK — Townsend Studios, located in the restored Carney House Carriage House in downtown Brunswick, will hold a grand opening celebration this evening and Saturday to coincide with Arts Downtown & All Around, sponsored the Five River Arts Alliance.
This time they're invited, but they don't want to come.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida sympathizers within U.S. borders are a threat domestically and abroad, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
A senior House Republican questioned Thursday how House Democrats can hold hearings on the security breach at a White House state dinner last week before holding them on the Fort Hood shooting spree last month.
WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee is investigating complaints by a fired Homeland Security Committee employee, who alleged that a lobbyist made improper requests to the panel chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Michael Chertoff headed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in its early years, from 2005 to 2009. As the third largest cabinet branch, with 218,000 employees, DHS controls immigration, borders, and even protects the president. Chertoff talked recently with NEWSWEEK's Jerry Guo about his tenure and new dangers facing the country. Excerpts:
The House ethics committee is investigating complaints by a fired Homeland Security Committee employee, who alleged that a lobbyist made improper requests to the panel chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Bennie Thompson got the memo. In a high-profile House hearing on Thursday, Rep. Thompson (D-Miss.), the Homeland Security Committee chairman, squashed Republican efforts to subpoena White House social secretary Desirée Rogers and put the blame for Tareq and Michaele Salahi's uninvited entry into the...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A House panel investigating a couple who slipped past security at a Nov. 24 state dinner at the White House is likely to issue subpoenas for them on Dec. 9, the committee staff director said.
Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night.
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