Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Homeland Security : Compendium of Recommendations Relevant to House Committee Organization and Analysis of Considerations for the House Updated March 7, 2005

By Koempel, Michael L.

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Title:	Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Homeland Security : Compendium of Recommendations Relevant to House Committee Organization and Analysis of Considerations for the House Updated March 7, 2005
Author:	Koempel, Michael L.
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Summary: This report has been updated with an epilogue on the creation of a standing House Committee on Homeland Security in the 109th Congress. The original report was not changed; its summary follows: The 9/11 Commission and other commissions and think tanks studying homeland security recommended congressional committee reorganization to increase Congress’s policy and oversight coordination. This report analyzes selected recommendations relevant to House committee reorganization. In the 108th Congress, the House created a Select Committee on Homeland Security, and charged it with studying the rules of the House with respect to the issue of homeland security. The select committee recommended a standing Committee on Homeland Security. This report digests the select committee’s recommendations.

Table of Contents
Contents Homeland Security and House Committees in the 107th and 108th Congresses . . . 3 107th Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 108th Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 108th Congress Hearings on Homeland Security and Committee Organization . . 7 Importance of Homeland Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Future Development of the Department of Homeland Security . . 9 Conduct of Oversight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Department’s Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Executive-Legislative Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Committee Overlap vs. Committee Expertise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Competing Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Committees’ Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 What Is Homeland Security? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Options Suggested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Homeland Security Committee Built Incrementally . . . . . . 18 No Homeland Security Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Transfer Jurisdiction over DHS to Homeland Security Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Split Transportation and Infrastructure Committee . . . . . . . 21 Assign Homeland Security to the Government Reform Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Select Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Ad Hoc Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Budget Subcommittee on Homeland Security . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Homeland Security Subcommittees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Select Committee’s Recommendations for a Homeland Security Committee . . 24 Subsequent Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 What Is Homeland Security? The Homeland Security Act of 2002 . . . . . . . . . . 29 What Is Homeland Security? Commission and Think Tank Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 9/11 Commission Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Bremer Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Gilmore Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Hart-Rudman Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40