The Department of Homeland Security expects to receive 3, 000 applications a day and will need to hire more than 1, 400 full-time workers, as well as contractlabor, according to sources familiar with the situation.
During his trip last week to the Los Angeles meeting of the big-spending afl-cio, where he promised new rules requiring all businesses that contract with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore made time for private chats with two significant Democratic Party supporters: supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and real estate investor Stanley Hirsh.