House Appropriations Sets Up Homeland Security Subcommittee
Recognizing the size of the recently launched Dept. of Homeland Security, the House Appropriations Committee has established a subcommittee to oversee the new department's funding. Under the reorganization, announced Jan. 29, Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) will chair the new homeland security panel. Rogers had led the transportation subcommittee, which will be abolished and its responsibilities split between the homeland security panel and a new Transportation-Treasury-Postal subcommittee.
The moves will take effect beginning with the fiscal 2004 appropriations round, which will start with the Feb. 3 release of President Bush's budget proposal.