Senate Holds Hearing On Structuring National Security At The White House

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Senate Holds Hearing On Structuring National Security At The White House
WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 12: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Liberman (I-CT) (2nd R) and ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) (L) pose for photographs with witnesses (L-R) Christine Wormuth, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' International Security Program; James Locher III, executive director of the Project on National Security Reform; Frances Townsend, former homeland security advisor to President George W. Bush; and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge before a hearing on Capitol Hill February 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. The witnesses offered differing points of view on whether the president's Homeland Security Council and National Security Council should be folded into one bureaucratic body. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)