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House and Senate Republican leaders and their aides , still stung by the November elections , are showing a remarkable lack of enthusiasm for President Bush 's plan to push ahead with greater spending for the war in Iraq as well as domestic ventures like Social Security and federal budget reforms . You certainly should be concentrating on strengthening the NPT by demanding greater transparency , more compliance with its provisions by all States Parties , an enhanced safeguards and inspection regime , legally binding security assurances which take precedence over national nuclear strategies and progress on nuclear disarmament . Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features , to use this system other than for its intended purposes , to deny service to authorized users , to access , obtain , alter , damage or destroy information , or otherwise interfere with this system or its information is prohibited . While plots to blow up airliners using liquid explosives are nothing new — such an attempt was foiled more than a decade ago — the government has been slow to upgrade its security equipment at airport checkpoints so that it can detect explosives on passengers . Abdurajak was killed in a gun battle with Philippine security forces in 1998 and Kaddafy soon thereafter took over the group 's leadership . " What we have to be concerned about , as we come down , [ is ] we take into account our strategic policies and make sure that we do n't cut to such levels that it really jeopardizes the nation , rather than increases its security , " he said . The difficulties they have in acquiring it arise in part from the new rules and methods which they are forced to introduce to establish their government and its security . David Walker , a Republican voice of truth at the GAO , reports that five years ago , the federal government 's long-term liabilities and unfunded commitments for things like Social Security and Medicare stood at $ 20 trillion .