Daniel Schuman

The Senate should provide the personal office staff of members on key committees with the clearances they need to properly support Congress in their review of information the executive branch has deemed classified.

The Project On Government Oversight and Demand Progress urged the House to fund and provide the authority for members on national security committees to have staff with adequate clearances to perform their constitutional oversight duties.

Which Staff Can Obtain Security Clearances, at What Levels, and Who Decides?

The appendix is a selection of legislative materials related to security clearances in the legislative and executive branches, including proposals that would reform how clearances function within the House and Senate.

The House Intelligence Committee is one step closer to increasing its ability to conduct effective oversight of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and the rest of the intelligence community after Committee on House Administration approved a 31 percent increase to its budget.