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Recent News About Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
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Portman Announces FY 2022 Bipartisan Funding Agreement Includes $250 Million in Security Resources for Faith-Based Communities & Institutions
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A landmark provision authored by U.S.
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U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Susan Collins (R-ME), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation that would strengthen requirements for foreign manufacturers of medical products that are distributed in the United States to register with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Rep. John Katko (R-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
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U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today spoke on the Senate floor to commemorate the first anniversary of the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
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A provision authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as well as Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Co-Chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, and Mike Rounds (R-SD) to authorize non-reimbursable detailees for the Office of the National Cyber Director (NCD) has been signed into law as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Domains Critical to Homeland Security Act was signed into law as part of the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Fund (NDAA).
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U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, toured the Nogales Mariposa Commercial Land Point of Entry (POE) and joined Nogales Sector Border Patrol on a tour the border.
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U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their DHS Blue Campaign Enhancement Act was signed into law as part of the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Richard Shelby (R-AL), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting the overdue report on the composition and vetting of the more than 78,000 Afghans evacuated by U.S. forces.
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U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced that Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted by a federal jury in connection with lying to federal authorities about his affiliation with the People’s Republic of China’s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China, as well as failing to report income he received from WUT.
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In his first year as Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) has worked hard to ensure that Ohioans and all American taxpayers receive the transparency, accountability, and sound policies they deserve from the federal government.
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U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expressing concern over the DHS proposal to convert Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers from their current status as deportation officers to criminal investigators.
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Bill Would Require Federal Agencies to Track and Publicly Report on Spending Related to Disasters and Emergencies
