February 9, 2007

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, has been selected to chair the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management for the 110^th Congress.

The new Subcommittee will focus on policies and management challenges affecting all 16 agencies that comprise our nation's Intelligence Community.

"The terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001, demonstrated the critical need for our intelligence agencies to work in concert with each other in collecting, analyzing and disseminating intelligence information," Eshoo said.

"This Subcommittee will work to ensure that the reforms Congress put in place after 9/11, including the creation of the Office of Director of National Intelligence to coordinate our intelligence efforts, are meeting the high standards the Congress and the American people expect of them," Eshoo said.

The Subcommittee will also perform important policy oversight regarding the designation of classified information, the process of granting security clearance, the physical infrastructure needs and acquisition practices of the Intelligence Community and the development of a professional intelligence workforce.

Eshoo was first sworn in to the House of Representatives in January 1993 and was appointed to the Intelligence Committee in January 2003. Since her appointment, Eshoo has worked to modernize intelligence-gathering capabilities and to improve congressional oversight of the Intelligence Community.

In the 109^th Congress, Eshoo was the Ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence and served on the Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy.

The Democratic members of the Subcommittee are Reps. Rush Holt of New Jersey,
C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland, Mike Thompson of California and Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania.

The Republican members of the Subcommittee are Ranking Member Rep. Darrell Issa of California and Reps.William "Mac" Thornberry of Texas and Todd Tiahrt of Kansas.

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