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[Washington Post]
By Stephen Barr

The mystery provisions are gone.

Yesterday, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), the House chairman who oversees the civil service, yanked provisions from a pending 9/11 bill that would have made it easier for the president to exclude unions at the Department of Homeland Security.

The provisions, which seemed likely to renew contentious debate over the role of unions at the departments of Homeland Security and Defense, had been part of a Republican bill that seeks to overhaul the government’s intelligence community. The bill is scheduled for debate today by the House Government Reform Committee, which Davis heads, and the inclusion of the labor-management provisions had drawn objections from the National Treasury Employees Union.

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