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      "title": "Department of Homeland Security: Options for House and Senate Committee Organization",
      "summary": "The 9/11 Commission Report  recommended that the House and Senate each have\na \"permanent\nstanding committee\" as the principal committee for conducting oversight and review for homeland\nsecurity. Earlier, pursuant to PL 107-296, the Homeland Security Act, a new Department of\nHomeland Security was established. Congress began discussions regarding the appropriate\ncongressional structure to conduct oversight and fund the new department. Section 1503 of the\nlegislation states the sense of Congress that each chamber should review its committee structure in\nlight of the reorganization of the executive branch, and the House, in the 108th Congress, established\na Select Committee on Homeland Security with a mandate to report recommendations for changes\nin the House committee system by September 30, 2004.\n  Each chamber might decide to retain its current structure, make minor alterations to its current\njurisdictional alignment, make extensive jurisdictional changes, create a standing committee,\nre-establish the existing House select committee, or establish one or more new select committees\nwith revised authorities. Further changes might also be made in the structure of the Appropriations\nCommittees. This report addresses some of these options and will be updated as events warrant.",
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      "title": "Department of Homeland Security: Options for House and Senate Committee Organization",
      "summary": "With the passage of H.R. 5710, to create a new Department of Homeland Security, Congress has begun discussions regarding the appropriate congressional structure to conduct oversight and fund the new department. Section 1503 of the legislation states the sense of Congress that each chamber should review its committee structure in light of the reorganization of the executive branch. This report addresses some of the options currently being discussed and provides information on legislation in the 107th Congress that attempts to alter the current committee system.",
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