What Has Been One of the Greatest Difficulties in Establishing

question 33

Multiple Choice

What has been one of the greatest difficulties in establishing the new Department of Homeland Security?

• A) adjusting to the many different bureaucratic cultures now part of a single operation
• B) finding a competent and willing department secretary
• C) getting congressional approval for the new department
• D) defending against the three challenges to the constitutionality of the department
• E) getting the American people to take seriously the color-coded terrorism warning levels

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