David Bonior on Homeland Security Former Democratic Representative (MI-10)

Voted YES on $266 billion Defense Appropriations bill.

Voted NO on deploying SDI.

End the use of anti-personnel mines.

Expresses the sense of Congress that:
1. the Department of Defense should field currently available weapons and other technologies, and use tactics and operational concepts, that provide suitable alternatives to anti-personnel mines and mixed anti-tank mine systems; and

2. the United States should end its use of such mines and join the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.

3. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to make permanent (currently terminates on October 23, 2003) the prohibition on the transfer of anti-personnel landmines.

4. Directs the President to establish an interagency working group to develop a comprehensive plan for expanded mine action programs, including victim rehabilitation, social support, and economic reintegration.

Federalize aviation security.

Establishes the Transportation Security Administration, including:
• civil aviation security, and related research and development activities;
• day-to-day Federal security screening operations for passenger air transportation and intrastate air transportation;
• policies, strategies, and plans for dealing with threats to transportation;
• domestic transportation during a national emergency, including aviation, rail, and other surface transportation
• management of security information, including notifying airport or airline security officers of the identity of individuals known to pose a risk of air piracy or terrorism or a threat to airline or passenger safety.

Address abuses of electronic monitoring in the workplace.

• Establishes certain privacy protections for employees and customers with respect to electronic monitoring in the workplace by employers.
• Directs the Secretary of Labor to enforce such protections.
• Provides for coverage of employees of the House of Representatives and the Senate under this Act.

Establish a Women's Bureau in Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a Women's Bureau in the Department of Veterans Affairs.