Recognizing the exemplary contributions of the Gilmore Commission to the homeland security of the United States, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Apr 2, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
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- IntroducedFeb 25, 2004
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
States that the House of Representatives recognizes the exemplary accomplishments and contributions of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (also known as the Gilmore Commission) to improvements to the homeland security of the United States.
Urges Congress to: (1) implement the remaining recommendations by the Gilmore Commission, including the 20 additional recommendations made in its fifth annual report, "Forging America's New Normalcy: Securing Our Homeland, Protecting Our Liberty", published in December 2003; (2) establish an advisory panel to report to the President and Congress on the adequacy of State, local, and private sector entities to respond to terrorist, environmental, and accidental catastrophes and the coordination of the response of these entities with that of Federal agencies; and (3) establish an advisory panel to report to the President and Congress on deficiencies in protection of the Nation's critical infrastructures and strategies to protect those infrastructures.
Urges the President to establish an independent, bipartisan oversight board to provide counsel on the effects on civil liberties of homeland security efforts.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 2, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- Feb 26, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
- Feb 25, 2004Introduced in House
- Feb 25, 2004Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commemorations
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Congressional tributes
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Disasters
- EBB Terrorism
- Emergency Management
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- International Affairs
- Terrorism
- Weapons of mass destruction
Text 1
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- Feb 25, 2004Introduced in House
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