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handle is hein.crs/crsaiak0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21360 Updated August 13, 2004 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Department of Homeland Security: Options for House and Senate Committee Organization Judy Schneider and Paul Rundquist Specialists on the Congress Government and Finance Division Summary The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that the House and Senate each have a permanent standing committee as the principal committee for conducting oversight and review for homeland security. Earlier, pursuant to PL 107-296, the Homeland Security Act, a new Department of Homeland Security was established. Congress began discussions regarding the appropriate congressional structure to conduct oversight and fund the new department. Section 1503 of the legislation states the sense of Congress that each chamber should review its committee structure in light of the reorganization of the executive branch, and the House, in the 108th Congress, established a Select Committee on Homeland Security with a mandate to report recommendations for changes in the House committee system by September 30, 2004. Each chamber might decide to retain its current structure, make minor alterations to its current jurisdictional alignment, make extensive jurisdictional changes, create a standing committee, re-establish the existing House select committee, or establish one or more new select committees with revised authorities. Further changes might also be made in the structure of the Appropriations Committees. This report addresses some of these options and will be updated as events warrant. Overview Since the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security, there has been widespread interest in reorganizing the House and Senate committee systems to handle homeland security issues more effectively. Some changes to the committee systems have already been made, but there are calls for still more comprehensive action. Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Among the many issues discussed in the report of the commission were a group of recommendations intended to Congressional Research Service **** The Library of Congress

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