Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joseph
Lieberman, D-Conn., has introduced legislation calling for
a comprehensive new plan that identifies strategic goals,
creates standards of accountability, outlines organizational
roles and responsibilities, and that would require the
creation of an independent homeland security commission.
The bill is based on principles outlined in a February
Government Accountability Office report and would require
the strategy to include risk assessments and concrete
milestones to help set priorities and measure progress.
It would also require the strategy to address information
sharing among all levels of government and the private
sector, the ability of health care professionals to detect
and respond to attacks, and emergency preparedness in the
public and private sectors, said the statement.
The Homeland Security Commission would consist of nine
experts appointed to review the strategy and offer
alternative perspectives and solutions.
The bill would attempt to establish clear definitions of
organizational roles and responsibilities and the proper
roles of state, local, private and international actors,
as well as clarify the relationship between the homeland
security strategy and other federal strategies regarding
terrorist threats, said the statement.
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