Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) chaired a hearing of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee to discuss the fiscal year 2004 budget needs for the Secret Service and the Coast Guard.

W. Ralph Basham, Director, United States Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and Admiral Thomas H. Collins, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, testified before the subcommittee.

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