Can anyone help me find the text of Lieberman's bill to create DHS?

[annabanana]

(It wasn't the version that ended up being adopted).. I have no idea where to look...

[babylonsister]

1. Are you sure he didn't just add amendments?

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2003/s010703.html

PS, I haven't read this.

Congressional Record: January 7, 2003 (Senate)
Page S38-S64






By Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself and Mr. Daschle)
S. 41. A bill to strike certain provisions of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296), and for other purposes; to the
Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce a bill on
behalf of myself and Senator Daschle to remedy some problems in
landmark legislation passed at the end of the last Congress, and signed
into law by President Bush, to establish a Department of Homeland
Security. The legislation we are offering today would strike seven
extraneous special interest provisions inserted into the Homeland
Security Act by Republican leadership in the bill's waning hours,
provisions that are contrary to the bipartisan spirit in which the
Homeland Security Act was conceived.

Since the days following September 11, 2001, when terrorists
viciously took the lives of 3,000 of our friends, family and fellow
Americans, I have advocated establishing a Department of Homeland
Security to beat the terrorist threat. Senator Arlen Specter, and I
initially proposed creating a new department in October 2001. Our
measure was not just bipartisan. It was in fact intended to be
nonpartisan.

Unfortunately, some partisan battles did ensue, primarily regarding
longstanding civil service protections for homeland security workers,
and I remain very concerned about the potential impact of these
provisions. Nevertheless, the final bill was, for the most part, a
critical, well-constructed piece of legislation that incorporated the
majority of the provisions approved by the Governmental Affairs
Committee, and which an overwhelming majority of the Senate embraced.

In some very specific ways, however, the bill was flawed. In the
final stages of passing the bill, the Republican leadership hastily
inserted several special interest provisions that had no place in this
measure. Most of these provisions had never been in any version of the
legislation before the Senate before they were presented in a take-it-
or-leave-it package by Republicans, and several had not been considered
by either chamber. The method and spirit in which these provisions
found their way into what should have been a consensus piece of
legislation was utterly objectionable and Senator Daschle and I made an
effort to remove them at the time. That effort narrowly failed, but not
before news of these special interest provisions had created great
consternation for Democrats and the public, and even for some
Republicans. Indeed, according to numerous published reports, the
Republican leadership was able to muster the votes to preserve the
provisions only after promising to revisit at least some of the most
egregious additions during this session of Congress.

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[annabanana]

2. Thanks... I got it..

I found it, S.2452, house version H.R. 4660