Security Second (or Third): The new Congress takes an old approach to homeland security.

Members of Congress head home this week with precious little to show for their months of grandstanding on the Hill. However, as the clock counted down to August recess, lawmakers were able to get one "signature" bill off to the president, an act purporting to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

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