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Newletters From January, 2003
FEMA'S MIKE BROWN TO BE UNDERSECRETARY FOR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE IN THE NEW HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT
Originally Posted: January 13, 2003 12:52 PM
Last Updated: January 13, 2003 12:52 PM
When the new Homeland Security Department goes into business, Mike Brown today's Deputy Director at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be in charge of emergency response according to the White House.
Joe Allbaugh will end his term as head of FEMA in March, 2003 and Brown was to have been his successor. Brown will be undersecretary for emergency preparedness and response at the Homeland Security Department.
FEMA will become part of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003 along with other agencies such as the Secret Service, Customs Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Former Member of Congress Asa Hutchinson, today's Drug Enforcement Administration chief, will be Undersecretary of Border and Transportation Security. Texan Clark Kent Ervin will be inspector general.
The agency will encompass 22 current Federal agencies and have 170,000 employees. The HQ will probably be in Chantilly, VA a suburb west of Washington DC which can be reached from National Airport via Interstate 66 and Dulles Airport via Rt. 28. The Chantilly site will have a substantial parking lot surrounding it which will help security officials keep terrorists and demonstrators away from the building. Legislators in the District of Columbia have objected to the Virginia location citing a law, which says the permanent HQ of every Federal department must be located in the District of Columbia. The Virginia site is being called the "temporary" HQ leaving open the remote possibility it will be moved in the future. Key advocate for the Virginia site is Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) who is new Chair of the House Government Reform Committee and last year completed a highly successful term as chief fundraiser for the election of Republican members of the US House of Representatives.
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DEALER OPPONENT DAVIS WINS US HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIR
Originally Posted: January 10, 2003 10:46 AM
Last Updated: January 10, 2003 10:46 AM
US Representative Tom Davis (R-VA) has been selected chair of the House Committee on Government Reform. His selection was praised by former Clinton-Gore Administration leader Steve Kelman: "Tom Davis is the most knowledgeable member of Congress on procurement issues . . .This is good news for friends of good government -- and I'm a Democrat." (Washington Post, Jan 10 '03) Kelman, now a Harvard professor, was head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy during the Clinton-Gore White House years. He was the chief advocate during Clinton-Gore for Federal Centralized Cooperative Purchasing in which the US General Services Administration was to take over the buying functions of state and local governments. Kelman's chief ally in the House was Rep. Tom Davis who read a letter to the House from Vice President Gore advocating Federal takeover of the market dealers serve today. NEEDA opposed Davis, Kelman and Gore and won repeal of the law they were trying to implement. President Clinton signed the repeal NEEDA advocated into law and the issue should have been dead. But, as a House Subcommittee Chair Davis kept the issue alive by introducing legislation and holding hearings on Federal Centralized Purchasing for state and local governments. Now, as the new Chair of the Government Reform Committee Davis is expected to reintroduce his legislation in the 108th Congress and hold hearings in 03 on how the GSA and its contractors can do a better job for state and local governments than can local dealers. While Davis has received praise from the National Federation of Small Business (NFIB), NFIB opposed Davis when he was the spokesman for Gore and Kelman on the House floor.
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