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		<title>How DHS plans to use stimulus funds</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/how-dhs-plans-to-use-stimulus-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of a total of roughly $3.5 billion in stimulus funds for DHS, here are some spending totals by component: TSA: $1 billion, CBP: $980 million, New DHS HQ: $650 million, FEMA: $615 million+, USCG: $240 million, and ICE: $20 million.  But note that $750 million of the money for CBP and the new DHS HQ will go to GSA, not do DHS directly.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=531&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New National Infrastructure Protection Plan Released</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/new-national-infrastructure-protection-plan-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) was released yesterday.

I've extracted and attached the full Table of Contents (4 pages) and the Executive Summary (6 pages) as separate documents.  Both are worth reading, if only to identify the parts of the full document you may want to read more closely.  For a super-compact summary, I've included a short excerpt from the Preface, and a list of the major sections of the document in this post.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=519&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Event: PS-Prep Public Meeting #2</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/event-ps-prep-public-meeting-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second of 2 public meetings on PS-Prep, a new DHS voluntary preparedness accreditation and certification program for the private sector, will be held on Monday February 23.  I plan to attend this meeting, and I'll post an entry after the meeting.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=511&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Event: House HS Hearing with Janet Napolitano</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/event-house-hs-hearing-with-janet-napolitano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Committee on Homeland Security will be having a full committee hearing on Wednesday Feb 25, with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano as a witness.  The title/subject is "DHS: The Path Forward."

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		<title>House passes law to improve sharing of threat information</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/house-passes-law-to-improve-sharing-of-threat-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislation passed by the House Tuesday (H.R. 553) would require DHS to produce a declassified version of threat information for state and local first responders who don't have the security clearance to view classified material.  The measure would also require portion marking, where certain classified parts of a document might be blacked out but the rest of the information would remain unclassified.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=504&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Napolitano&#8217;s Action Directives</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/overview-of-napolitanos-action-directives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[surge capacity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her first 10 days in office, new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has issued 12 "action directives" focused on specific homeland security areas.  Here's an overview of all the action directives, including their purpose and a brief look at what they may indicate for Homeland Security policy in the Obama administration.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=501&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New bill calls for quarterly reports from DHS grant recipients</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/new-bill-calls-for-quarterly-reports-from-dhs-grant-recipients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill that would require recipients of homeland security grants to file quarterly reports to Congress on precisely how they spent those funds has been filed by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and co-sponsored by five other congressmen.  I'll update this post as the bill's status changes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=499&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/apologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My spam settings were wrong, so if you posted a comment I didn't either respond or approve it, it may have been flagged by the system as spam and automatically deleted.  My apologies - if this happened to you, please re-post.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=496&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama pushes security upgrades for seaports &amp; emergency communications</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/obama-pushes-security-upgrades-for-seaports-emergency-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Government Security News: President Obama's radio and Internet address Jan 24 specifically mentioned strengthening security at the nation’s seaports and improving first responder communications as areas targeted by the economic recovery plan - and thus likely to receive federal funding in the short term.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=494&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction: Lobbying 101</title>
		<link>http://hspolitics.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/introduction-lobbying-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Thomas, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may have some interest in a new blog I started, Lobbying 101, to share some of my experience and advice on working with lobbyists.  Lobbying 101 covers understanding what lobbyists do, the value they add to our government (yes, they actually can help), deciding if you should hire one, finding and hiring a good lobbying firm, and working with lobbyists effectively.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hspolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4970823&amp;post=492&amp;subd=hspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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