Democrats Rename 5 House Committees: What Would You Rename Dept. Homeland Security?

[KittyWampus]

As the Democrats in the House revert Committees back to their original names, which more accurately reflect their mission, what would you want to rename the Department of Homeland Security?

DU'er Seafan proposed "Committee on Port, Border and Infrastructure Protection" and I thought that was pretty good.

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Democrats rename 5 House committees

• The Committee on Education and the Workforce was changed back to its pre-1995 name, Education and Labor. Tom Kiley, a spokesman for incoming chairman George Miller, D-Calif., said Miller "believed that the name change in 1994 was a deliberate swipe at the labor movement in this country. He wanted to reverse the insult."

• The House Resources Committee is now the House Natural Resources Committee — the name it received in 1993 and lost in 1995. (It started in 1816 as the Committee on Public Lands.) Incoming Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., said the new name shows Congress' "commitment to conserving our nation's unique natural and cultural heritage — including its natural environment, public lands and forests, and fish and wildlife."

• Returning to a name first bestowed in 1922, the International Relations Committee is once again the Foreign Affairs Committee. Holocaust survivor Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., wields the gavel.

• The Science Committee is now the Committee on Science and Technology to more accurately describe the committee's jurisdiction, Democratic counsel John Piazza said. He said the Republicans' 1995 change shortened the name from the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Tennessee Democrat Bart Gordon is the new chairman.

• Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., is chairman of the newly renamed Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which had been the Government Reform Committee only since 1999. Before then, it was the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Waxman revels in his reputation as a watchdog over the executive branch.

[liberal N proud]

1. Rename Dept. Homeland Security to the Gestapo

Secret State Police

[Riddler]

2. Department of Laundered Funds

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Dept of Defense is now Dept of Belligerance

Dept of Labor is now Department of Oursourcing and Pocket-lining

State is the Department of International Arrogance and Intolerance

Dept of Justice is now the Crusade for Christ and Coverups

Border Patrol is now Department of Greeters, guides, and refreshments.

[rusty_parts2001]

23. War Department will do just fine.

[teamster633]

18. seconded

[Xipe Totec]

3. The Deparment of Redundancy Department

[Richard Steele]

5. Dang, ya beat me to it! That's exactly what it is.

[poiuytsister]

16. Firesign Theater fan? n/t

[SAXMAR]

4. Clueless Cops

[Mend]

6. as it was called in "1984", "The Ministry of Love" and all its repuke

members called the Thoughtpolice looking for Thoughtcrimes to protect us all.

[MasonJar]

8. The Department of Homeland Insecurity?

[peacetalksforall]

9. HS to IC - Intelligence Central.

or Intelligence Central G S C (Gathering and Spying on Citizens)

[pretzel4gore]

10. Dept of BigBrotherLand Security

DBBLS!...i like it...

[FredStembottom]

11. Dissolved

n/t

[nebenaube]

15. now you are talking.... n/t

[TahitiNut]

12. Stalag America

:shrug:

[bluerum]

13. Uuhhhh,,,, The National Guard? This should have been a national

defense issue, addressing the individual needs of the states.

[WinkyDink]

14. Defunct. It's totally a Nazi name.

[donsu]

17. the Dept. of Dragons and Gargoyles

dragons kill for riches and hoard them

gargoyles look fierce but have nothing, zero, to back up the looks

[LiberalEsto]

19. Dept. of Pork and Fascism nt

[leftofthedial]

20. The Department of Police State Acquiescence Training

and Insecurity Maintenance


Or perhaps FUDD--the fear, uncertainty and doubt department

[HCE SuiGeneris]

21. S.C.U.D.D.

Specialized Citizenry Undermining & Debasement Department in charge of FEMA (Feckless Error-prone Mis-management A-holes)

[DU9598]

22. Department of Political Cover , Manipulation, and Opportunism

The main goal has been to provide terrorist alerts everytime bad news comes out for republicans or Democrats are in the news.

[GeorgeGist]

24. Department of Offense

[Inyerface]

25. Committee On Perverted Paranoia

Help! They're coming to get me!
The whole program reeks of Germany in the early 1930's