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Initial Findings of the U.S. House of Representatives Joint Task Force on U.S. Central Command Intelligence Analysis
From the executive summary within the document: "The Joint Task Force was created by the Chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense to investigate the allegations of a whistleblower that intelligence produced by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) had been manipulated to present an unduly positive outlook on CENTCOM efforts to train the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Although investigations into the whistleblower's allegations continue, the Joint Task Force has conducted sufficient investigation to reach certain interim conclusions. Those conclusions are contained in this report. However, the Joint Task Force awaits the completion of the ongoing Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG) investigation into this matter."
United States. Congress. House
2016-08-10
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H. Rept. 114-787: Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2016, Report to Accompany H.R. 3537, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, Second Session, September 26, 2016
The report was submitted by the Honorable Fred Upton, Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, to accompany H.R. 3537 on September 26, 2016. "The bill would amend section 202(c) of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by adding twenty-two synthetic drug compounds to Schedule I."
United States. Congress. House
2016-09-26
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Executive Summary of Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden
"In June 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden perpetrated the largest and most damaging public release of classified information in U.S. intelligence history. In August 2014, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) directed Committee staff to carry out a comprehensive review of the unauthorized disclosures. The aim of the review was to allow the Committee to explain to other Members of Congress-and, where possible, the American people-how this breach occurred, what the U.S. Government knows about the man who committed it, and whether the security shortfalls it highlighted had been remedied. Over the next two years, Committee staff requested hundreds of documents from the Intelligence Community (IC), participated in dozens of briefings and meetings with IC personnel, conducted several interviews with key individuals with knowledge of Snowden's background and actions, and traveled to NSA Hawaii to visit Snowden's last two work locations. The review focused on Snowden's background, how he was able to remove more than 1.5 million classified documents from secure NSA networks, what the 1.5 million documents contained, and the damage their removal caused to national security."
United States. Congress. House
2016-09-15
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Press Release: Statement of the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding the Arrests of Members of the House During a Protest Outside the United States Capitol on December 6, 2017
"On December 21, 2017, the Committee [U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics] released a Report regarding the arrests of Members of the House during a protest outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. on December 6, 2017. The Report can be found on the Committee's web site: www.ethics.house.gov."
United States. Congress. House
2017-12-21
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Report: In the Matter Regarding the Arrests of Members of the House During a Protest Outside the United States Capitol on December 6, 2017
"On December 21, 2017, the Committee convened for the purpose of considering the December 6, 2017, arrests of Representatives Judy Chu and Luis V. Gutierrez, for Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding, during a protest outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Representatives Chu and Gutierrez paid a $50 fine and were released following their arrest. The legal proceedings related to these arrests are now resolved. [...] The Committee has determined to take no further action in this matter, and upon publication of this Report, considers the matter closed."
United States. Congress. House
2017-12-21
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H.Rept. 116-XXX: Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to the Committee Report for the Resolution Recommending That the House of Representatives Find William P. Barr, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, in Contempt of Congress for Refusal to Comply with a Subpoena Duly Issued by the Committee on the Judiciary
This is the amendment to House Report 116-XXX: "Beginning on page 1, strike 'The Committee on the Judiciary, having considered' and all that follows through the end of the report, and insert the following[.]" A full revision of the original report follows.
United States. Congress. House
Nadler, Jerrold
2019
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H.Rept. 116-XXX: Resolution Recommending That the House of Representatives Find William P. Barr, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, in Contempt of Congress for Refusal to Comply with a Subpoena Duly Issued by the Committee on the Judiciary, Report together with ___ Views, 2019
This is the 2019 House Report on the Committee of the Judiciary recommendation that the Attorney General William P. Barr be held in contempt of Congress for "failure to comply with a congressional subpoena." A final House Report is pending. An amendment to this document is available.
United States. Congress. House
2019
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[March 21, 2013 Letter to the Acting Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office Gene L. Dodaro]
From the Letter: "We write to request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a study of the Michigan emergency manager law, including the operation of federally-funded programs (such as education, transportation, Medicaid, and public safety) in jurisdictions declared in financial crisis, and placed under the authority of an emergency financial manager."
United States. Congress. House
Conyers, John, Jr., 1929-; Peters, Gary C.
2013-03-21
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Failure of Oversight: How Republicans Blocked a Credible Investigation of the Trump Administration's Response to the 2017 Hurricanes, Democratic Staff Report, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, September 2018
From the Executive Summary: "The hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands last fall were one of the most devastating and deadly natural disasters in United States history. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed an estimated 1,100 people. In 2017, the hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2,975 people--more than the number of people killed in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001."
United States. Congress. House
2018-09
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Federal Homeland Security Assistance to America's Hometowns: A Survey and Report from the Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security
At the end of July 2003, the Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security, the House Democratic Caucus and several Democratic Members of Congress distributed a survey on Hometown Security to local governments, local officials, police, firefighters and other front-line workers. They received 304 responses from individuals and organizations in states ranging from Vermont to California. Specifically, the survey aimed to determine the level of assistance and guidance the federal government and Department of Homeland Security gives the men and women who are the first line of defense against terrorists and who will be the first ones to respond to terrorist attacks. This is the Task Force's effort to try to gauge the level of preparedness and needs on the ground in America's hometowns, where the defense against terrorism is most critical and must be the most stout. Previously, the Task Force brought three panels of local officials and front-line workers from across the United States to Washington to participate in a hearing on the homeland security needs in their hometowns. The survey results give the Task Force concrete answers to standardized questions from a wide swath of respondents (See Appendix A for list). While this is not a scientific study, the Task Force uses the extensive responses from the hundreds of respondents in communities across the country as it reviews, plans and proposes homeland security policy.
United States. Congress. House
2003-10-29
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Corporate and Foreign Interests Behind White House Push to Transfer U.S. Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia, Second Interim Staff Report, Committee on Oversight and Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, July 2019
From the Executive Summary: "On February 19, 2019, the Committee on Oversight and Reform issued an interim staff report prepared for Chairman Elijah E. Cummings after multiple whistleblowers came forward to warn about efforts inside the White House to rush the transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. [...] The Committee's first interim staff report explained that whistleblowers inside the White House expressed alarm about corporate interests attempting to use their influence with the Trump Administration to bypass these concerns in order to serve their own financial interests in building nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia. [...] This report--the Committee's second interim staff report on this issue--is based on more than 60,000 pages of new documents obtained by the Committee since it issued its first interim staff report in February. These documents have been produced in response to requests that Chairman Cummings made to a host of outside companies about their involvement with these efforts."
United States. Congress. House
2019-07
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Report of Evidence in the Democrats' Impeachment Inquiry in the House of Representatives
From the Executive Summary: "The sum and substance of the Democrats' case for impeachment is that President Trump abused his authority to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, President Trump's potential political rival, for President Trump's benefit in the 2020 election. Democrats say this pressure campaign encompassed leveraging a White House meeting and the release of U.S. security assistance to force the Ukrainian President to succumb to President Trump's political wishes. Democrats say that Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal attorney, and a 'shadow' group of U.S. officials conspired to benefit the President politically. [...] The evidence does not support the accusation that President Trump pressured President Zelensky to initiate investigations for the purpose of benefiting the President in the 2020 election. The evidence does not support the accusation that President Trump covered up the summary of his phone conversation with President Zelensky. The evidence does not support the accusation that President Trump obstructed the Democrats' impeachment inquiry."
United States. Congress. House
2019-12-02
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Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report
From the Executive Summary: "The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election. As described in this executive summary and the report that follows, President Trump's scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign. The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently feared the most, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election. To compel the Ukrainian President to do his political bidding, President Trump conditioned two official acts on the public announcement of the investigations: a coveted White House visit and critical U.S. military assistance Ukraine needed to fight its Russian adversary."
United States. Congress. House
2019-12
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Fukushima Fallout: Regulatory Loopholes at U.S. Nuclear Plants
"In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Japan, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established an agency task force to conduct a review of the lessons that can be learned from the Tohoku earthquake and the tragic, ongoing events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant that have followed. [...] However, an examination of NRC regulations demonstrates that flawed assumptions and under-estimation of safety risks are currently an inherent part of the NRC regulatory program, due to a long history of decisions made by prior Commissions or by the NRC staff that have all too often acquiesced to industry requests for a weakening of safety standards. Coupled with reports that the near-term inspections being conducted at United States nuclear power plants may be limited in scope and subject to restrictions on public disclosure, it would be unwise to move forward with any pending licensing actions before the NRC fully completes its review and upgrades of its safety requirements. The NRC's stated commitment to learn from the recent Japanese disaster is undermined both by its post-Fukushima approvals of license extension applications for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vermont and Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Units 1, 2, and 3 in Arizona and by its apparent failure to fully explore all the vulnerabilities the Fukushima meltdown has revealed. This report represents a partial summary of regulatory inadequacies, practices and decisions that impair effective nuclear safety oversight, some of which have occurred in the wake of the Japanese meltdown."
United States. Congress. House
Markey, Edward J.
2011-05-12
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Katrina and Beyond: Recommendations for Legislative Action
This report from the House Katrina Task Force is the culmination of efforts to acess the recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina and to recommend actions to Congress to be better prepared for future such disasters. The recommendations follow a series of interviews with several state and local elected officials in the Gulf Coast region as well as local experts. The list of recommendations include areas such insurance policies, levees and flood control, public health, FEMA , transportation, small business and economic recovery, housing as well as other areas. The intention of the Task Force is to have Congress act on these recommendations.
United States. Congress. House
Taylor, Gene; Melancon, Charlie
2006-10
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United States Army Military Readiness
According to this report, addressing the Army's short and long-term needs will require: robust funding increases for rehabilitating and replacing equipment; a national commitment to improve Army readiness and focus attention on military service, and; a reduction in U.S. deployments to Iraq. "The U.S. Army's preparedness for war has eroded to levels not witnesses by our country in decades. As deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan continue unabated, there is a very real prospect that Army readiness will continue to erode, undermining its ability to meet the theater commanders' needs and foreclosing any option for the U.S. to respond to conflicts elsewhere around the globe."
United States. Congress. House
2006-09-13
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Security or Pork? A Review of National Homeland Security Funding Boondoggles
According to this report, "millions of dollars that are supposed to fight terror are actually going to the very worst kind of pork barrel programs. Meanwhile, many real homeland security needs -- like those in New York City -- remain unmet. There is currently no central depository of homeland security grant information. After the federal government awards state homeland security grants, the money trickles down to local emergency management agencies without adequate reporting back to the Department of Homeland Security about how the money is used. In response, Congressman Weiner and Congressman Flake will introduce the Homeland Security Transparency Act. The bill would require that any government entity that spends federal homeland security dollars to report the use of the expenditure and an explanation of its connection to homeland security to the Department of Homeland Security within one week of the purchase. It would also require that the Department of Homeland Security post all these expenditures on a publicly available website within one week of receiving the information from a grantee."
United States. Congress. House
2007-03-01
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Hurricane Katrina: Preparedness and Response by the State of Mississippi
"Today we turn our attention to Mississippi in what is our second of three hearings focused on state and local preparation and response, and state and local coordination with the federal government. We will ask how the Governor, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) personnel, and local officials conducted response operations during Hurricane Katrina, as well as how well the federal government did or did not provide adequate support. As we will explore Mississippi's laws, policies, procedures, and its interface with the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA when confronting the prospect or reality of a catastrophic disaster, we will look at the respective roles and responsibilities of the Governor, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, the State Health Officer, FEMA's Federal Coordinating Officer, and county and local governments." Witnesses include: Governor Haley Barbour, Dr. Biran W. Amy, Robert Latham, William Carwile, and Brent Warr.
United States. Congress. House
2005-12
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Chairman Hoekstra Letter To Ranking Member Jane Harman - Formal Investigation with Respect to Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq
"There is overwhelming and authoritative evidence that the failures of pre-war intelligence arose in significant part because our nation's intelligence capabilities had been decimated prior to the war, and because the flawed product of those capabilities was not substantially questioned in light of the existing and widespread bipartisan consensus that Iraq posed a threat of weapons of mass destruction. There is no evidence that the failures of pre-war intelligence arose because of pressure on Intelligence Community professionals to conform their analysis to policy judgments, despite ample, thorough, and fair previous investigation. Our country is at war and we must ensure that the Committee's resources are directed to forward-looking support of our national security against a real and continuing variety of threats."
United States. Congress. House
2005-11-10
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Hurricane Katrina: The Federal Government's Use of Contractors to Prepare and Respond
This hearing examines the Department of Homeland Security procurement actions taken to prepare for and in response to Hurricane Katrina; the Army Corps' disaster relief contracting procedures; the role and progress of the Inspector General community in evaluating contracting for disaster response and recovery, and; the role of federal contractors in the disaster preparedness and response to Hurricane Katrina. Witness testimonies include those of: Greg Rothwell, Norbert Doyle, Richard L. Skinner, Terry Thornton, Jim Bernhard, and Tim Zimmerman.
United States. Congress. House
2005-11
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Hurricane Katrina: Preparedness and Response by the State of Alabama
This hearing examines the State of Alabama's preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina. "Today we turn our attention to Alabama, in what will be the first of three hearings focused on state and local preparation and response, and state and local coordination with the federal government. We'll continue asking the same tough questions we've asked of federal witnesses at our previous hearings. How policy implementation became so wildly divorced from policy creation. Why there seemed to be such profound government hesitancy at all levels. Why we appear to have confused getting the government ready with getting people ready." Witness testimonies include those of: Bob Riley, Bruce Baughman, Jim Walker, Leigh Anne Ryals, and Michael Bolch.
United States. Congress. House
2005-11
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Hurricane Katrina: The Role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
"Today the Select Committee will examine the Federal Emergency Management Agency's preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina. With the help of former FEMA Director Michael Brown, we will attempt to construct for the record a timeline of what FEMA did and didn't do before, during, and after this catastrophic storm. Our focus will be on what happened, when, and why. We will ask Mr. Brown whether the timeline of events we've constructed matches his memory of how things transpired. And we'll ask him which local, state, and federal government officials he spoke with, and what they spoke about."
United States. Congress. House
2005-09
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Predicting Hurricanes: What We Knew About Katrina and When
This hearing is the first hearing of the select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina. "There is so very much to examine here- why coordination and information sharing between local, state, and federal governments appears to have been so dismal. Whether FEMA has been organizationally undermined and under-funded; why all residents were not evacuated; why the New Orleans levee system failed; why relief and medical supplies and support were so slow in arriving; and why government at all levels failed to react more effectively to a storm that was predicted with unprecedented timeliness and accuracy."
United States. Congress. House
2005-09
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Hurricane Katrina: The Role of the Department of Homeland Security
"Our goal today is to understand the Department of Homeland Security's role and responsibilities before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on August 29, 2005."
United States. Congress. House
2005-10
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Hurricane Katrina: Preparedness and Response by the State of Louisiana
This Hearing focuses on what went right and what went wrong in the Hurricane Katrina response of the State of Louisiana. "This hearing will examine how the Governor of Louisiana, the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Mayor of New Orleans, the Mayor's Director of Homeland Security, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency worked together to alleviate the suffering of so many of our fellow citizens." Witnesses include: Governor Kathleen Blanco, Jeff Smith, C. Ray Nagin, Terry J. Ebbert, William M. Lokey, and Philip Parr.
United States. Congress. House
2005
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Transcript of the Floor Debate on House Resolution 895: Supporting Intelligence and Law Enforcement Programs to Track Terrorists and Terrorist Finances
This document is the transcript of a House floor debate on H. Res. 895. "H. Res. 895 supporting intelligence and law enforcement programs to track terrorists and terrorist finances conducted consistent with Federal law and with appropriate Congressional consultation and specifically condemning the disclosure and publication of classified information that impairs the international fight against terrorism and needlessly exposes Americans to the threat of further terror attacks by revealing a crucial method by which terrorist are traced through their finances."
United States. Congress. House
2006-06-29
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LNG Facilities in Urban Areas: A Security Risk Management Analysis for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Rhode Island
"This analysis focuses on Security Risk Management involving intentional damage by a determined group. It does not address Safety Risk Management. Traditional risk management calculation methodologies are insufficient to deal effectively with the security risk now posed by terrorist groups. Traditional risk management methodologies would have determined that the probability of terrorists employing hijacked commercial passenger aircraft to destroy the World Trade Center was zero. The probability of a terrorist attack occurring can not be effectively measured, but it is now 'a foreseeable risk' in the United States. Instead of calculations involving probability of attack, we suggest an alternative five part methodology for determining security risks and cost calculations. An appropriate security risk management methodology examines five factors: intent, capabilities, vulnerabilities, consequences, and recovery."
United States. Congress. House
Clarke, Richard A.
2005-05
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Serial No. 109-140: The Impact of Visa Processing Delays on the Arts, Education, and American Innovation, Hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, April 4, 2006
From the opening statement of Committee Chairman Tom Davis, "The purpose of this hearing is to highlight the Department's efforts to cope with the ever-increasing visa application volume in the post-September 11th security environment. We also will examine the impact of this process on American economic and cultural vitality and explore ways Congress can ensure that the United States remains open and accessible. Following the September 11th attacks, we came to understand that our borders begin overseas at our consulates and that the process of granting a visa to foreign citizens seeking to travel here is the first line of defense in protecting the homeland from terrorist attack. Each of the September 11th terrorists had at some point been vetted through a U.S. consulate and received a visa. Consequently, the Government has gone to great lengths to secure the visa process. Congress mandated that nearly every applicant for a visa be interviewed, the State Department began collecting biometrics on all applicants, and many new consular employees were hired. This state of affairs, however, has placed tremendous strains on the visa process." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Tony Edson, Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Davis, Elizabeth Dickson, Jess T. Ford, Sandra L. Gibson, Kevin Schofield, Dennis J. Slater and Henry A. Waxman.
United States. Congress. House
2006
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Letter from Edward J. Markey to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, April 9, 2004
This document is a letter by Edward J. Markey requesting the immediate declassification of all documents in the possession of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission related to the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear accident in accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13292.
United States. Congress. House
2004-04
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Bioterrorism Preparedness: People, Tools, and Systems for Detecting and Responding to a Bioterrorist Attack: Field Hearing Before the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, May 3, 2004
From the document: 'To be properly prepared to detect and respond to a bioterrorist attack, numerous governmental and private entities must coordinate their efforts and plan for targeted and prioritized use of public health resources. Key players include federal agencies, state and local health departments, first responders, and hospitals. Development and deployment of information technology systems for the detection of bioterrorist agents or other infectious diseases, the surveillance of unusual symptoms, and rapid communication during incident management is significantly improving capabilities to detect and respond effectively to bioterrorist incidents and natural outbreaks of infectious diseases.' Witnesses include Mr. Charles A. Schable; Mr. Samuel H. Turner, Sr.; Mr. Richard J. Morrissey; Ms. W. Kay Kent; Mr. Brad Mason; Dr. Ronald J. Kendall.
United States. Congress. House
2004-05-03
