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</html><description>WASHINGTON &ndash; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., on Wednesday questioned the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security about the high ratio of contractors to civilian employees within the DHS workforce. According to DHS estimates, the first the Committee has received despite years of [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Files.View&amp;FileStore_id=bff57a1f-fb62-4a74-aeff-af0a600bd862</thumbnail_url></oembed>
