This Plan for Streamlining Oversight Would Enhance Homeland Security
Key government officials are ready to reform congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, something that is long overdue.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has suggested in recent days that he would like to streamline that oversight.
While it may sound strange, the homeland security committees in the House and the Senate aren’t primarily responsible for oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
When Congress, during the George W. Bush administration, created the new department in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by pulling together agencies from 22 other departments, each congressional committee kept its oversight authority of those agencies.
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