Senate OKs Ridge as Homeland Security Head
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The Senate, on a unanimous 94-0 vote, confirmed Tom Ridge as homeland security chief.
Ridge, 57, the former Pennsylvania governor, will head the new Department of Homeland Security, which will be located in a northwest Washington office complex.
It eventually will be composed of 170,000 civil servants now working at 22 separate agencies with security-related functions.
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