61.   Several lawmakers told Ridge on Tuesday that they were worried that a singular focus on a new department will delay enacting measures needed to prevent a new attack.

62.   Some lawmakers said it sends the wrong message to combine the job of processing legitimate immigrant visas with that of border control in the new department.

63.   Spiegel declined to say whether the new department will mean additions to staff.

64.   Stephen Moore, the president of the Club for Growth, an anti-tax political action committee, said any new Cabinet department creates a demand for money.

65.   Some, such as Nomura, have reorganized their structure as well, adding new departments to strengthen oversight.

66.   That means Lieberman will push the Bush administration on the soft spots of its proposals even as he reminds everyone that the new department was originally his own idea.

67.   The administration never considered moving the CIA into the new department, aides said.

68.   The administration declined to send a representative to explain the request and the legislation introduced by the administration to create the new departments includes only two sentences about APHIS.

69.   The committee is overseeing the search for a new department chairman and the first of perhaps a half-dozen new professors to replace the ones who have left.

70.   The CIA and the FBI will remain outside the new department, although their intelligence failures are the most conspicuous weakness in our homeland security.