Harmonizing House and Senate Appropriations for Homeland Security

In reconciling the Senate and House versions of the FY 2004 DHS appropriations bill, the conferees must ensure that key initiativesare not shortchanged. They also should resist the urge to "overhelp" with unnecessary earmarks that limit the DHS's ability tofocus on the most critical needs or "overload" it with additionaldollars for programs that cannot profitably use them.

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