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      "id": 315763,
      "date": "2005-08-24",
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      "title": "FY2006 Appropriations for Border and Transportation Security",
      "summary": "A well-managed border is central to maintaining and improving the security of the United States\nagainst terrorist threats. Border security entails regulating the flow of goods and people across the\nnation's borders so that dangerous and unwanted goods or people are denied entry. Transportation\nsecurity entails screening and protecting people and goods as they move between different locations\nwithin the country. The overall appropriations over the past three years for Border and\nTransportation Security, as defined in this report, are as follows: in FY2004, Congress appropriated\n$18,106 million; in FY2005, Congress appropriated $20,313 million; in FY2006, the President\nrequested $19,586 million; House-passed  H.R. 2360  provides $21,015 million; and\nSenate-passed H.R.   2360 provides $21,283 million.\n Determining which goods and people are permitted and which are denied entry into the United\nStates involves a system of sophisticated border management. This system must balance the need\nfor securing the nation's borders while facilitating the essential commerce and legitimate free flow\nof citizens and authorized visitors. The system must be capable of a detailed examination of the\ngoods and people seeking entry, but must still fit within budgetary constraints and be\nadministratively feasible. Improving transportation security has meant an expanded federal role in\nscreening passengers and baggage traveling through airports and also increasing the presence of\nfederal officers aboard domestic and international flights. Plans exist to expand the presence of\nfederal officers in other modes of transportation. Finally, these management systems must\naccomplish their functions with a minimum of disruption of legitimate activities, and without\nunnecessary intrusion into the civil liberties of persons affected by them.\n Within the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been given\nprimary responsibility for securing the nation's borders and for increasing the security of\ntransportation, among other responsibilities. The locus of border and transportation security activity\nwithin DHS is in the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security, which houses the Bureau\nof Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement\n(ICE), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The U.S. Coast Guard is a stand-alone\nagency within DHS but plays an important role in border and transportation security, as does the\nFederal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). This report includes appropriations for the\nfunctions and agencies of BTS, the U.S. Coast Guard and FLETC. Major issues include the number\nof available detention beds and investigators at ICE; the number of Border Patrol agents in CBP; the\nappropriate level of funding for the Deepwater program within the Coast Guard; and non-aviation\nsecurity spending within TSA.\n This report will be updated to reflect the Conference Agreement between the House and the\nSenate and final passage.",
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