1.   Key elements of the new department will be the introduction of a national lottery and of a Millennium Fund.

2.   One of the first actions of the new department was to begin consultations about local government reorganisation.

3.   Similarly, changes in university structure which lead to the creation of new departments without previous track records, are extremely difficult to initiate successfully.

4.   Some new departments were created, and most others expanded to meet the demands of government and industry.

5.   And Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., raised doubts about placing the entire Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear weapons facility, in the new department.

6.   Assuming that the new department is successfully created, the new secretary is widely expected to be Tom Ridge, the homeland security adviser.

7.   At the time, Ms. Barad also said that five new department heads would report directly to her.

8.   Authority over issuing visas to enter the country would be moved from the State Department to the new department.

9.   A new department would be created with added enforcement powers.

10.   Bush insists no connection between revamping FBI and creating new department of Homeland Security with congressional hearings.