United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is a standing committee of the US Senate .

The Committee is responsible for the work of the Department of Homeland Security (Department of Homeland Security) to monitor and functioning of the executive branch itself. This includes the National Archives , the budget, if it does not involve investments (appropriations) , the censuses , federal employees, the District of Columbia, and the United States Postal Service .

history

The committee was originally set up to make the internal work of the government easier to monitor for the Senate and to give the Senate the opportunity to investigate possible misconduct efficiently. This task was added in 2005 with the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security .

Members of the 114th Congress

Ron Johnson, current chairman of the committee

Chairman is Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ; Ranking minority member is the Democrat Tom Carper from Delaware .

republican Surname Country Ron Johnson , Chairman Wisconsin John McCain Arizona Rob Portman Ohio Rand Paul Kentucky James Lankford Oklahoma Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire Mike Enzi Wyoming Joni Ernst Iowa Ben Sasse Nebraska

Democrats Surname Country Tom Carper , Ranking Member Delaware Claire McCaskill Missouri Jon Tester Montana Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin Heidi Heitkamp North Dakota Gary Peters Michigan Cory Booker New Jersey

Subcommittees

There are six sub-committees, with the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations having existed since 1952. This subcommittee is permanent, but only comes into action sporadically. Having a broad mandate and rights to investigate government and government institutions, it has consistently been a valuable tool in the hands of individual leaders; the best known was Joseph McCarthy , who conducted his investigations within this committee.

Former chair

Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, 1921–1952

• Joseph M. McCormick (R- IL ), 1921-1925
• David A. Reed (R- PA ), 1925-1927
• Frederic M. Sackett (R- KY ), 1927-1930
• Guy D. Goff (R- WV ), 1930-1931
• Frederick Steiwer (R- OR ), 1931-1933
• J. Hamilton Lewis (D- IL ), 1933-1939
• Frederick Van Nuys (D- IN ), 1939-1942
• J. Lister Hill (D- AL ), 1942-1947
• George Aiken (R- VT ), 1947-1949
• John L. McClellan (D- AR ), 1949-1952

Chair of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, 1952–1977

• John L. McClellan (D-AR), 1952-1953
• Joseph McCarthy (R- WI ), 1953-1955
• John L. McClellan (D-AR), 1955-1972
• Sam Ervin (D- NC ), 1972-1974
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (D- CT ), 1974-1977

Chair of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs

Joe Lieberman has chaired the committee several times.

• Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-CT), 1977-1981
• William V. Roth (R- DE ), 1981-1987
• John Glenn (D- OH ), 1987-1995
• William V. Roth Jr. (R-DE), 1995
• Ted Stevens (R- AK ), 1995-1997
• Fred Thompson (R- TN ), 1997-2001
• Joe Lieberman (D-CT), 2001
• Fred Thompson (R-TN), 2001
• Joe Lieberman (D-CT), 2001-2003
• Susan Collins (R- ME ), 2003-2005

Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

• Susan Collins (R-ME), 2005-2007
• Joe Lieberman (I / D-CT), 2007-2013
• Tom Carper (D-DE) 2013–2015

Web links

• Committee's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The subcommittee published a report in 2014 that accuses some of the large Wall Street banks of misconduct in commodity transactions: Sharp criticism of banks' commodity transactions - FAZ of November 21, 2014, p. 23