Ryan NicolFebruary 18, 2019
5min441
Lawmakers say up to 150,000 Venezuelans would qualify for temporary protection.
Tag: DHSCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
Ryan NicolFebruary 18, 2019Ryan NicolJuly 20, 2018
6min306
U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch is now calling on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign, partly because of comments made by Nielsen during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum. Nielsen touched on a variety of topics during an interview with NBC’s Peter Alexander, including last year’s violent protests in Charlottesville and Russian interference in […]
Ryan NicolJune 20, 2018
4min275
President Donald Trump appears to give in to widespread criticism over his administration’s policy of separating thousands of migrant children from their families. Trump said Wednesday he will sign an executive order ending the controversial policy. “We are going to sign an executive order in a little while to keep families together, but we have […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2017
2min224
In the end, everybody in the U.S. House of Representatives agreed that Rep. John Rutherford‘s first bill needed to become law. As the 408-0 vote in the House Tuesday reflected. H.R. 1294, the Reducing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acquisition Cost Growth Act, seeks to stop wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars by agencies like the Transportation […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 2, 2016
3min279
On Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Ron DeSantis did an interview on the Fox Business Network slamming the Department of Homeland Security‘s decision to extend temporary protective status amnesty to 8,300 Syrian refugees for up to 18 months. DeSantis, in a competitive primary for re-election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, observed that the amnesty “actually applies to people who came from […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 25, 20156min231
Uh oh. He did it again. Keith Olbermann is on paid suspension for the rest of this week, after a few angry tweets to a Penn State supporter got him in hot water with his ESPN bosses. While the tweeter sent Olbermann a link about the university’s $13 million fundraising for pediatric cancer research, Keith […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 24, 2015
5min249
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor says there are still ways for House Republicans to pass a clean funding bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, which could run out of money by Friday if a resolution isn’t passed in Congress. The Tampa Bay area Democrat held a press conference Tuesday in a parking lot […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 19, 20154min227
Among the many links on this morning’s Drudge Report is a story by the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Marco Rubio essentially saying that Congress should pass a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security without conditions. There are just eight days remaining before funding for DHS will run out, with the House and Senate at […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 12, 2015
4min176
In Washington, members of Congress are in full attack mode about who is to blame for the fact that the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) could lose its funding in two weeks. Tampa Bay area Representative Kathy Castor today cosponsored H.R. 861, a bill that would prevent a Feb. 28 shutdown of the DHS, the agency charged […]