"Romney: Remake Homeland Security Dept."

Source: Breitbart – 8/1/2007

Thoughts:  “There is such duplication in Washington that you’d really like to take the place apart and put it back together, just smaller and simpler and smarter.”  This is coming from Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney.  He’s not asking for much, is he?  He is right though.  The creation of the Homeland Security Department is still a work in progress, primarily trying to resolve the internal overlap between the numerous smaller groups which were merged into the Department back in 2003.  Four years later, many internal problems have yet to be resolved, which result in higher overhead costs and inefficiency.  I would like to see Romney’s plan for how the Department should be revamped, but I do not believe that will be shared with unless he is elected in 2008. 

Article:  “Romney: Remake Homeland Security Dept.”

PELHAM, N.H. (AP) – Republican hopeful Mitt Romney complained Wednesday that one of the Bush administration’s chief domestic security accomplishments—the Department of Homeland Security—is inefficient and requires major restructuring.

At a coffee-and-donuts meeting with about 100 supporters, Romney said the department does some things well, but it has challenges rooted in the fact that it is made up of different agencies “stuck in one big bureaucracy.”

He noted that he was a member of a Bush administration homeland security advisory panel while he was governor of Massachusetts.

“There is such duplication in Washington that you’d really like to take the place apart and put it back together, just smaller and simpler and smarter,” Romney said. He said if he was president he would expect the department to survive, but “it probably needs to be streamlined.”

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