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June 14, 2002
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Hoeven Asks Delegation To Support President's Homeland Security Department Initiative
Letter to Delegation 
(137kb pdf)
BISMARCK, N.D. - Governor John Hoeven today in a letter asked Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad, and Representative Earl Pomeroy to support President Bush’s Homeland Security Department initiative. Hoeven told the delegation that the President’s initiative to create the Department of Homeland Security is both farsighted and necessary.
“Since September 11, America faces a new environment,” Hoeven told the delegation. “Restructuring government to protect the American homeland is a key step in our national security strategy. I am asking our delegation to get squarely behind the President on this very important plan.”
The objective of the President’s plan is to unify and streamline homeland security under a single agency with four complementary divisions. These are:
- Border and Transportation Security
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures, and
- Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
Hoeven said this organizational structure provides a logical, comprehensive and coherent framework for securing the safety of our nation.
“The new department would provide better analysis, coordination, and resource management,” Hoeven wrote. “Moreover, the new department would help states better assist homeland security from the standpoint of accountability, information and resources.”
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