{"id":99621,"date":"2018-03-08T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99621"},"modified":"2018-03-08T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:33:10","slug":"house-panel-oks-latta-terrorism-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/house-panel-oks-latta-terrorism-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel OKs Latta terrorism measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.<strong>\u00a0&#8212; <\/strong>On Wednesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/bill\/h-r-4227-vehicular-terrorism-prevention-act-2017\/\">approved H.R. 4227<\/a>, the bipartisan\u00a0Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act, legislation authored by U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) that would improve vigilance in the face of growing terrorist attacks using vehicles. The bill passed by voice vote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33253\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33253 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Latta-Bob-8-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Bob Latta<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The legislation requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assess current actions at the department to support emergency response providers and the private sector to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the threat of vehicular terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The bill then requires DHS to submit a strategy to Congress that includes an examination of the current threat of vehicular terrorism, methods to improve information sharing activities with the private sector, and training activities that the department can undertake. The strategy would also include recommendations from DHS on what can be done to aid department efforts to prevent vehicular terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve\u00a0seen terrorists in Europe using vehicles, oftentimes rental vans or trucks, to kill innocent people and inflict terror,\u201d said Latta. \u201cWith the October attack in New York City showing that these groups will not hesitate to carry out the same type of attack here, it\u2019s important that the Department of Homeland Security is doing their due diligence regarding this threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also critical that the department has the resources they need to prevent the use of\u00a0vehicles as a means of terror and keep American citizens safe,\u201d Latta added. \u201cThe Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act will bolster efforts to address this threat, and\u00a0I\u00a0thank Chairman McCaul and the House Committee on Homeland Security for approving this legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212; On Wednesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security\u00a0approved H.R. 4227, the bipartisan\u00a0Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act, legislation authored by U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) that would improve vigilance in the face of growing terrorist attacks using vehicles. The bill passed by voice vote. The legislation requires the Department of Homeland Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 19:36:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}