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The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a nomination hearing on President Obama’s nominees for the U.S. Coast Guard and Consumer Product Safety Commission. In the firs…

Witnesses testified on the Transportation Security Administration’s use of body scanners at airports and other programs designed to make air transportation safe and secure.

Witnesses testified about the Obama administration’s new National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security, released on January 25. Topics included the administration’s use of a risk-based …

Witnesses testified about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the status of ongoing environmental damage assessment. They also examined ways to improve the oil spill response process …

Paul Zukunft talked about the U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security’s plans to work together to limit terrorist and other threats on U.S. maritime ports, shores, and waterways…

Piracy experts from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and Royal Canadian Navy talked about recent international piracy incidents and how civil unrest and poverty are contributing to the rise …

Thad Allen and Admiral Paul Zukunft spoke to reporters and outlined steps to be taken over the next few weeks aimed at permanently plugging the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. They also reac…