Aug. 15, 2003 -- The Bush administration has not acted on plans to establish and improve homeland security measures, especially on the state and local levels, according to a new Senate staff report.

Aug. 7, 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has directed the National Guard Bureau to deliver to him by the end of the month a plan for how to increase the role of the Army and Air National Guard in homeland defense and the war on terror.

Aug. 4, 2003 -- Over the next several months, the Department of Homeland Security will ask the nation's colleges and universities how they would set up homeland security centers of excellence on their campuses to carry out research in several fields.

July 29, 2003 -- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a Senate panel today the Defense Department would terminate a nascent futures market to predict terrorist attacks and their ramifications.

July 25, 2003 -- The National Security Agency's global eavesdropping network is a technological marvel, allowing it to electronically gather massive amounts of signals intelligence every day. But in the global war on terrorism, the agency has not used its high-tech capabilities as effectively as it could, according to the results of a House-Senate investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration must make changes to its safeguards and securities program to better protect nuclear materials and secrets, according to a recently released General Accounting Office report.

June 24, 2004 -- The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.

June 24, 2004 -- The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.

June 24, 2004 -- The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.

June 24, 2004 -- The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.

June 24, 2004 -- The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.

June 24, 2004 -- The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.

June 19, 2003 -- The Bush administration's new Terrorist Threat Integration Center will not be under the control of the CIA and the framework for the center represents the best approach to ensuring federal, state and local authorities are properly coordinated in the war against terrorism, according to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.