Honorable Henry Waxman
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Waxman, of the Twenty-Ninth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974. He served in the California Assembly from 1968 to 1974. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Government Reform Committee. The following is from the July 26, 2002, House floor debate on H.R. 5005, the Homeland Security Act of 2002.I agree we need homeland security legislation. It is clear that Federal departments are not working together as they should to protect our Nation. Revelations of missed signals and failures to communicate at the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] and the…
