5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor · Needs Congress
Limit DHS congressional oversight to one authorizing and one appropriations committee
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“The next President should reach an agreement with congressional leadership to limit committee jurisdiction to one authorizing committee and one appropriations committee in each chamber. If congressional leadership will not limit their committees' jurisdiction over DHS, DHS should identify one authorizing and appropriations committee in each chamber and answer only to it.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. No agreement between the President and congressional leadership limiting DHS oversight to one authorizing and one appropriations committee per chamber exists, no rules change was adopted in either chamber, and no DHS announcement says the department will answer only to a single committee in each chamber. DHS bills continue to be referred across multiple committees -- H.R. 8874, for example, was referred in the Senate to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs while amending a defense authorization act.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Not started, on a negative search covering DHS congressional relations and reporting requirements. This is a Requires-Congress ask in an unusual form: it asks for an inter-branch agreement rather than legislation, so the ladder’s rungs do not fit cleanly. Nothing at any rung was found — no agreement, no rules change, no unilateral DHS announcement.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- congressional committee jurisdiction over DHS
- ID
- 435