President Bush's proposal to create a Cabinet-level Dept. of Homeland Security that would bring together parts or all of 11 current federal agencies is garnering a generally favorable reception from construction executives.
"Reorganization is a needed first step," says John F. Hennessy, CEO of the New York City-based Syska Hennessy Group. But "the people that will be staffing the combined agency...will be the same people who were in the individual agencies in the past. They will bring with them the same biases and mode of operation they had in their previous positions."