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Capitol Hill: Heritage Foundation to Congress: Reform DHS funding process

The Heritage Foundation is urging Congress to streamline its DHS budget-making process, by moving towards adoption of a single DHS appropriation bill. "Broad homeland security policy issues would be better addressed in an authorization bill than by a patchwork of legislation," the conservative think tank advised in a recent white paper. It added that a single authorization bill "would allow the authorizing committees to exercise more stringent oversight of the Department of Homeland Security." The report, authored by Senior Policy Analyst Mackenzie Eaglen, suggested that the streamlined process would also allow Congress to address the many homeland security issues that individual pieces of legislation have not covered, while reducing "reactive stand-alone legislation that is inevitably proposed after the latest threat or incident and directed at ever-changing security concerns."

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