Labor union politics behind sluggish Senate debate on homeland

Sunday, September 29, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Election-year politics are a chief reason for the Senate's impasse on creating a Homeland Security Department. Democrats are refusing to buck their allies in organized labor and give President Bush the broad power he demands to hire and fire agency workers.

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