[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 87]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY NOMINATIONS

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today the Senate received from the 
President the nominations for the positions of Secretary of Homeland 
Security and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. I understand that 
these nominations will be referred to the Committee on Governmental 
Affairs because at this time the primary responsibility of these two 
officials will be to implement the structural reorganization of 
disparate entities into this new agency. I understand that in the 
future nominations for various positions created by the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 may be referred on the basis of the 
responsibilities of those officials at that time, and that the initial 
referral of these nominations will not serve as precedent binding the 
Chair in the future.

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