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US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's jurisdiction includes overseeing the United States Intelligence Community (the agencies and bureaus of the Federal government of the United States who provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislative branches), an annual review of the intelligence budget submitted by the President, and preparing legislation authorizing appropriations for the various civilian and military agencies and departments comprising the Intelligence Community. These entities include the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the intelligence-related components of the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy. The Committee makes recommendations to the Senate Armed Services Committee on authorizations for the intelligence-related components of the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, and US Marine Corps. The Committee also conducts periodic investigations, audits, and inspections of intelligence activities and programs.

The Committee is "select" in that membership is temporary and rotated among members of the chamber. The committee comprises 15 members; eight of those seats are reserved for one majority and one minority member of each of the following committees: Appropriations, Armed Services, Foreign Relations, and Judiciary. Of the remaining seven, four are members of the majority, and three are members of the minority. In addition, the Majority Leader and Minority Leader are non-voting ex officio members of the committee.

Dianne Feinstein, Democratic Senator from California

Chairwoman

Christopher Bond, Republican Senator from Missouri

Vice Chairman

General Senate Intelligence Committee Members:

(Click on any Senator's name for that Senator's information page with a link to his or her office website)

John Rockefeller, Democratic Senator from West Virginia

Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon

Evan Bayh, Democratic Senator from Indiana

Barbara Mikulski, Democratic Senator from Maryland

Russell Feingold, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin

Bill Nelson, Democratic Senator from Florida

Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island

Orrin Hatch, Republican Senator from Utah

Olympia Snowe, Republican Senator from Maine

Saxby Chambliss, Republican Senator from Georgia

Richard Burr, Republican Senator from North Carolina

Tom Coburn, Republican Senator from Oklahoma

James Risch, Republican Senator from Idaho

Click here for a list of all members of the 111th United States Congress (United States Senators and Representatives by State), with links to US Senators' information pages and their Senate Committee assignments, as well as US Congressional districts, their elected Representatives, and those Representatives' House Committee assignments, all current through the year 2010

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