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      "date": "2004-10-15",
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      "title": "S.Res. 445: Senate Committee Reorganization for Homeland Security and Intelligence Matters",
      "summary": "Early in October 2004, a bipartisan Senate working group headed by Senators Mitch McConnell\nand\nHarry Reid issued a series of recommended reforms in Senate committee operation and jurisdiction\nwith regard to homeland security and intelligence. The working group recommendations came in\nthe wake of the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States\n(also known as the 9/11 Commission), which urged Congress to reorganize its committee structures\nto oversee these issues more effectively. \n  Following four days of debate and amendment, on October 9, 2004, the Senate passed\n S.Res. 445 , a resolution that implemented a number of the working group's suggestions\nregarding Senate Committee reorganization. These changes, which take effect on the convening of\nthe 109th Congress, include lifting term limits on service on the Senate Intelligence Committee;\nraising the Intelligence Committee to category \"A\" status; giving the majority and minority leaders\npower to select the Intelligence Committee chair and vice chair; reducing the size of the panel from\n17 to 15 members; and changing certain staffing processes of the Intelligence Committee. \n S.Res. 445  also renames the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to the Senate\nCommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and transfers to the new panel\njurisdiction over matters relating to the Department of Homeland Security, with certain limitations. \nThe resolution establishes a new Intelligence Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on\nAppropriations and a new Subcommittee on Oversight on the Intelligence Committee. It also makes\nchanges to the confirmation process and the sequential referral of matters reported from the\nIntelligence Committee. This report will be updated in the event of further changes to these\nprovisions.",
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