41.   Last year, the Legislature and Davis approved a new state department to monitor and research privacy issues.

42.   Korb compared the new department to the creation of the Department of Defense after World War II.

43.   Leahy was joined by Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, in seeking explicit protections for whistleblowers who might emerge in the new department.

44.   Lieberman said the new department needed control over counter-terrorism intelligence to effectively do its job.

45.   Lunner said that naming a new department undersecretary to head the TSA is a top priority.

46.   Mobbed-up drug dealers are getting antsy, squeezed by the new department on one side and the threat of a ruinous decriminalization on the other.

47.   More important, he said, the new department would borrow intelligence analysts from the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

48.   Moore of the Club for Growth said he hoped conservatives would at least seek something in return for a new department.

49.   Neither the FBI nor the CIA would be included in the new department.

50.   New departments feature luggage, infant accessories and pro and college sports clothing.