Rep. Issa Named Ranking Member of Intelligence Community Management Subcommittee

Rep. Issa Named Ranking Member of Intelligence Community Management Subcommittee

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49) has been named Ranking Member of the Intelligence Community Management Subcommittee which is responsible for focusing on the management challenges of integrating the 16 components of the intelligence community. This is the second Subcommittee on which Issa will serve as Ranking Member for the 110th Congress. He also serves as the Ranking Member for the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform which has jurisdiction for all oversight of domestic policy issues.

"Congressman Issa's background in business will help him as the top Republican on the Intelligence Community Management Subcommittee," said U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member. "From reducing Intelligence Community bureaucracy to increasing the language capability of our nation's intelligence workforce, there are many vital issues where Darrell will make a difference in strengthening America's national security efforts."

"In this information age, having our intelligence community coordinate and communicate effectively is essential to our national security. The pace of new technology creates both new threats to our security and gives us the tools to counter them," said Issa. "This Subcommittee will work to foster needed change in how the intelligence community works together."

The aim of the Intelligence Community Management Subcommittee will be to help the Community achieve what the 9/11 Commission termed "unity of effort" to collect, analyze, and disseminate policy-relevant intelligence. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) serves as Chair of the Subcommittee.

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