FC: Who's on the new House "Homeland Security" committee

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[This committee will be involved with many computer security issues and 
$500,000,000 a year (to start) in "homeland security technology" funding, 
if my memory is correct. Worth watching. --Declan]

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News From . . .
        The Homeland Security Committee
Christopher Cox, Chairman
Jim Turner, Ranking Member

<http://cox.house.gov>

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE: 


Chairman Cox Announces Homeland Security Committee Members

Top-Level Appointments Underscore Importance of Department's Mission

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)-Homeland Security Committee 
Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) and Ranking Member Jim Turner (D-TX) today 
announced the members of the Homeland Security Committee.  The members were 
appointed by Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and Minority 
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) based on their substantive expertise in the many 
areas such as intelligence, cybersecurity, border and port security, public 
health, and emergency preparedness that together comprise the mission of 
the newest Cabinet department.

The Committee will coordinate all House oversight of the Homeland Security 
Department in the House of Representatives.  It will also exercise 
exclusive legislative jurisdiction over the Homeland Security Act that 
established the Federal department tasked with protecting the United States 
from terrorist attack.

"The impressive group of legislators who will comprise this 
Committee-including the Chairmen of the most significant committees in the 
Congress-underscores the importance we attach to protecting our citizens 
and our country," Chairman Cox said.  "Every member of the Committee, on 
both sides of the aisle, will work to ensure that the largest 
reorganization of the U.S. government in over half a century accomplishes 
its objective:  keeping Americans safe."

Majority Members of the House Homeland Security Committee:

Rep. C.W. Bill Young (FL)
Rep. Christopher Shays (CT)
Rep. Curt Weldon (PA)
Rep. Dave Camp (MI)
Rep. David Dreier (CA)
Rep. Don Young (AK)
Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA)
Rep. Ernest Istook (OK)
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (WI)
Rep. Harold Rogers (KY)
Rep. Jennifer Dunn (WA)
Rep. Jim Gibbons (NV)
Rep. John Linder (GA)
Rep. John Shadegg (AZ)
Rep. John Sweeney (NY)
Rep. Kay Granger (TX)
Rep. Lamar Smith (TX)
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL)
Rep. Mac Thornberry (TX)
Rep. Mark Souder (IN)
Rep. Pete Sessions (TX)
Rep. Peter King (NY)
Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL)
Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (VA)
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (NY)
Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin (LA)

Minority Members of the House Homeland Security Committee:

 Rep. Robert E. Andrews (NJ)
Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (MD)
Rep. Donna M. Christensen (VI)
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (OR)
Rep. Norman D. Dicks (WA)
Rep. Bob Etheridge (NC)
Rep. Barney Frank (MA)
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (TX)
Rep. Jane Harman (CA)
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX)
Rep. James R. Langevin (RI)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA)
Rep. Nita M. Lowey (NY)
Rep. Ken Lucas (KY)
Rep. Edward J. Markey (MA)
Rep. Karen McCarthy (MO)
Rep. Kendrick B. Meek (FL)
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ)
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (CA)
Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY)
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (MS)

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