...transferred into a new Department of Homeland Security. Stevens brought up the issue Wednesday as the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee began drafting a Homeland Security bill. The measure acknowledges the Coast Guard's prime mission is...

...for him; Thomas denied the allegations. In 1997, Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating fundraising abuses, accused the White House of "a clear pattern of delay, foot-dragging...