'Secure'?: Another New Definition from Secretary Napolitano - Janice Kephart
May 16, 2009
By Janice Kephart
On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee conducted a hearing on the 2010 budget priorities of the Department of Homeland Security. The budget was submitted to Congress on May 7, 2009 as part of the President's $3.5 trillion Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Proposal. The ranking Republican on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. borders and counterterrorism, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), yesterday during the hearing specifically asked DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano whether she still supported repeal of the REAL ID Act. This was the exchange:
REP. SOUDER: Now on the border, one is a concern on terrorism on the border. If we're going to work out anything in this country on immigration we have to have the confidence of the American people that whether it's the Dream Act or whether it's immigration reform of some type, that the border is secure, or otherwise people just pour in if we make changes.
Furthermore, if we're going to fight terrorism, we have to know who people are.
You stated that you wanted to eliminate - repeal the Real ID Act, which was one of the key 9/11 Commissions and - do you still stand with that? Do you see that moving ahead? And how is that working? And if I can do the second one, you can kind of work these together.
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