LEGISLATION NEEDED TO REQUIRE NATIONAL GUARD, RESERVES TO STEP UP CIVIL SUPPORT DURING DOMESTIC CATASTROPHES
February 13, 2008
February 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release:
U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., said Wednesday they would move to require that the National Guard and Reserves be equipped, trained, and ready to respond to a homeland security catastrophe, particularly a nuclear attack. . . .
U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., said Wednesday they would move to require that the National Guard and Reserves be equipped, trained, and ready to respond to a homeland security catastrophe, particularly a nuclear attack. . . .