House Homeland Security Committee Year in Review

The House Homeland Security Committee has published a review of the legislation it proposed that was approved in the last session of Congress and that remain pending as bills. The approved legislation includes the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Act, which created the organization of the same name within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Preventing Emerging Threats Act, which is intended to provide DHS and the Department of Justice with needed authorities for protecting communities and buildings from drones. With the beginning of a new session of Congress, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) passes on the chairmanship that he assumed beginning in 2013 to Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who was previously the Committee’s ranking member and served as the chair from 2007 to 2010. Read the full review at the House Homeland Security Committee.