Schumer Slams Homeland Security's Mediocrity

Senator Charles Schumer issued another annual report card grading the Department of Homeland Security's efforts. The good news is that the grade is up from last year's C-minus. The bad news is that Schumer still gave it a C, noting, "Six years after 9/11, the progress the Department of Homeland Security has made in securing our country is shameful," and "When your kid comes home with a C on his report card on something vital, you're not very happy...That is not a grade we can be proud of."

Schumer gave many areas poor grades. He gave an F for preparedness and response; as WABC 7 reports, it means "communication handicaps rescue workers experienced on 9/11 have still not been adequately fixed." Schumer gave mass transit a D+, border security a C, nuclear/chemical/ biological security a B-, airport security a C+ and port security a C-.

Schumer believes that Homeland Security has, per AMNY, "a lack of focus, funding and follow-through." A Homeland Security spokesman responds that the department is focusing on nuclear or radioactive threats, "It's quite easy for a member of Congress to come up with a convenient sound bite and say we have to protect all people in all places all the time but that's unreasonable."

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By Jen Chung in News on September 10, 2007 8:03 AM

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guest

Somebody should bend him over a chair and f*&k the s*&t out of him.

guest

If it is Sunday, it is UpChuck Schumer press conference day! Can we seriously get some term limits for the Senate?

Bubba

Sound-bite Chuck speaks!

guest

no shit....chuck, you were in congress for years leading up to this mess we are in. WTF were you doing the whole time you moron????

guest

Just like Clinton, Maloney, and the rest at the 9/11 rescue workers' rally. Shouldn't they have been on the receiving end of that rally and not the ones dishing the rhetoric?

guest

I have just about enough of this Congress. All talk, no action. And vacation time on par with the President's. Somehow I think Bush does more "work" in Crawford than Congress does on their vacations. Bush at least has to pretend he's listening to briefings, Congress is out fundraising.