United States Senate Homeland Security Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery is one of the six subcommittees within the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
The Subcommittee is an ad hoc subcommittee, meaning "for this purpose." Ad Hoc committees are created for a single issue, and are disbanded after the issue is resolved. The Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery was formed after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
Jurisdiction
The Subcommittee's jurisdiction as stated by the Senate Rules is:
- Recovery provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Act and the Long-Term Community Recovery and Mitigation Annex (ESF-14) of the National Response Plan;
- Coordination of the long-term recovery plans, activities, and mitigation provided by all federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and State and local governments;
- National disaster recovery strategy and national disaster housing strategy; and
- Coordination of data sharing regarding recovery issues between federal agencies, state and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector.
The subcommittee is chaired by Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas and the Ranking Minority Member is Rand Paul of Kentucky.
References
- ^ Joe Lieberman is an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, and counts as a Democrat for committee purposes.
External links
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Current United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittees
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