Homeland Bill Faces Senate Derailment

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img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>The Senate continued debating the homeland security bill last week, but wrangling over details threatened to derail it as the end of the congressional session neared.

"We are stuck right now, and the bill has been pulled for Iraq," Don Stewart, press secretary for Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), said Oct. 3. "[Senate Majority Leader Tom] Daschle has said it would pass somehow this year, but it’s a matter of whether the bill comes back up before we adjourn."

One amendment still pending would require trucking companies — those hauling hazardous material and potentially all motor carriers — to submit security plans to the government for review.

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