Here is an issue of some immediate import - and I'm not referring to pet food.
Looking for some thoughtful comment here.
Sec of Homeland Security Chertoff is writing to Sen. Feinstein regarding S. 887 "To restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture."
The Administration, namely the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS, oppose this legislative proposal which if enacted, would remove agricultural inspection functions from DHS’s Customs and Border and Protection (CBP) and transfer this function to back to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).