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To: epsteinbd who wrote (2935)	11/12/2002 6:01:05 PM
From: calgal	of 8683

Agreement Reached on Security Bill 25 minutes ago URL:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20021112/ap_on_go_co/congress_lame_duck By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to begin pushing a bill to create a Homeland Security Department through Congress this week, moving toward a major legislative victory for President Bush (news - web sites). AP Photo Congress Freshmen Learn D.C. Ways (AP Video) Officials said the Republican-run House could approve the measure as early as Wednesday while the Democratic-controlled Senate would begin debating it the same day. Possible procedural delays by Senate opponents could delay final passage there until next week. Either way, approval would give the president one of the key parts of his plan for responding to last year's terrorist attacks. It would also suggest the political muscle he gained from last week's Election Day wins by congressional Republicans. According to a description circulating on Capitol Hill, the measure would include a provision allowing airline pilots to be armed in cockpits. Initial versions of similar legislation have already passed both the House and Senate, but the two chambers have not finished a compromise bill. The overall legislation would include language taking a small step to address complaints by Senate Democrats that the new agency's 170,000 workers would lack sufficient job protection. It would require the department to negotiate any workplace changes with the employees' union and require federal mediation if no agreement was reached. But in the end, the department could make whatever changes it wanted — flexibility that administration officials have argued they will need.

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