• Checking the immigration status of workers at airports and power plants (Sec. 1104)
• Using first responder grants to fund training and exercises (Sec. 1101)
• Protecting America's food supply from attack (Sec. 606)
• Biometric identification of individuals captured trying to enter the country (Sec. 907)

What's more, House Democrats also voted Wednesday against a key 9/11 Commission recommendation. Republicans proposed an amendment to the homeland security bill that would strengthen the process that identifies criminals and terrorists trying to enter the United States. This real-time, successful system has helped keep us safe, and the Republican proposal would make this program federal law, protecting it for the future. Yet 160 Democrats voted NO.

Today, Democrats will attempt to pass an intelligence bill that includes "deep cuts to classified CIA programs designed to help America fight and succeed in the conflict against radical jihadists," according to Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Pete Hoekstra (R-MI).

Not only that, it will divert funds to study, of all things, the climate. The Democrat bill requires America's intelligence community to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on climate change - a months-long, labor-intensive process normally used to assess the situation in Iraq or the plans of terrorist groups.

Also today, Democrats will advance their slow-bleed plan version 4.0, where they set July 31 as a cut-off date for troop funding. The Democrat bill puts troop funding on a monthly installment plan and the troops' bullets and body armor on layaway. The Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said today the Democrat slow-bleed plan would have a "huge impact" and "dramatic consequences."

Secretary Gates also warned, if the Democrats' cut-off funds in July, he "would have to shut down significant elements of the Department of Defense in August and September."