"Government officials have failed to inspect nearly all of the chemical plants considered to be at high risk for terrorist attacks, according to congressional investigators.

The Associated Press reports that a year-long investigation by Republican staff on the Senate Homeland Security Committee chronicles delayed government inspections, errors in assessing risks, and industry loopholes in the $595 million terror-prevention program passed in 2006.

The report, commissioned by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), called the U.S. prevention effort 'a broken program that is not making us measurably safer against the threat of a terrorist attack.'"

Laura Barron-Lopez reports for The Hill July 29,2014. [2]