The US Select Committee on Intelligence (Intelligence Committee) was created by to Senate Resolution 400, 94th Congress.
Overview
The Senate Intelligence Committee is charged with:
- overseeing and making continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government, and
- submitting to the Senate appropriate proposals for legislation and report to the Senate concerning such intelligence activities and programs.
- providing vigilant legislative oversight over US intelligence activities to assure that they are Constitutional.
Democratic Members - 2007-2008
- John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia, Chairman
- Evan Bayh, Indiana
- Russell D. Feingold, Wisconsin
- Dianne Feinstein, California
- Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
- Bill Nelson, Florida
- Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
- Ron Wyden, Oregon
Republican Members - 2007-2008
- Christopher S. Bond, Missouri, Vice Chairman
- Richard Burr, North Carolina
- Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
- Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
- Orrin Hatch, Utah
- Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
- John Warner, Virginia
