Republicans said federalization would expand the federal bureaucracy without any increased security benefits. They pointed to the incompetence of such federal agencies as the Immigration and Naturalization Service and FBI, noted that it would be much more difficult to fire government employees for incompetence, and said the Democrats wanted to add to their core of voters by increasing the government workforce. Good that there are still those who are carrying the banner for what is right. We are going to have to elect ourselves more of these kind of Republicans.
Looks like the last hope is the people, most of whom will just whine and not bother to pick up the phone to call their congressperson to tell them to nix the whole idea.
202-224-3121 - Congressional switchboard
Annie, for those of us who are new to this and have only written to our congresswomen, in my case...what do you say when you call...what info do you need to have when you call, etc?