Congressman Dave Reichert

Committee Membership

House Homeland Security Committee

Congressman Reichert serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment.

As the Ranking Member, Reichert has jurisdiction over federal, state, and local intelligence and information sharing efforts within the United States; terrorism-related threat, vulnerability, and risk analyses at the Department of Homeland Security; and terrorism threat advisories and warnings.

Congressman Reichert also serves on the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.

The Committee on Homeland Security was established in 2002 to provide Congressional oversight for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and better protect the American people against a possible terrorist attack. In 2005, The House of Representatives granted the Committee on Homeland Security permanent status. The Committee was chartered to hold hearings and craft legislation for issues specific to homeland security. Under Chairman Peter King’s (NY-03) leadership, the Committee passed several landmark pieces of bipartisan homeland security legislation, including the SAFE Port Act, Chemical Plant Security legislation, and FEMA reform.

During his first term in Congress, Reichert was only the sixth freshman in the history of the House of Representatives to be appointed a Subcommittee Chairmanship. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology, Chairman Reichert led the way in drafting comprehensive legislation to fix the emergency response problems associated with FEMA following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This legislation included a section on improving the ability of first responders to communicate during emergencies and it was signed into law on October 4, 2006.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Congressman Reichert serves on two subcommittees:

Ever since the first Congress authorized a lighthouse on Cape Henry, Virginia as an aid to ships sailing through Hampton Roads, the Congress of the United States has been involved in providing for the nation’s transportation infrastructure. In the more than two hundred years since the Cape Henry Lighthouse first shown out across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, the Committees of the House of Representatives responsible for public works and infrastructure have changed names and grown in scope. However, the mission remains essentially the same: provide a strong backbone upon which the nation’s people and commerce can flourish.

The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee currently has jurisdiction over all modes of transportation: aviation, maritime and waterborne transportation, roads, bridges, mass transit, and railroads. But the Committee has jurisdiction over other aspects of our national infrastructure, such as clean water and waste management, the transport of resources by pipeline, flood damage reduction, the economic development of depressed rural and urban areas, disaster preparedness and response, activities of the Army Corps of Engineers and the various missions of the Coast Guard.

House Science and Technology Committee

Congressman Reichert serves on two subcommittees:

The Science and Technology Committee has jurisdiction over all non-defense federal scientific research and development (R&D). Federal agencies that fall under the Committee's jurisdiction (either completely or partially) include: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

The Science Committee is responsible for overseeing research and development programs at all of the above agencies. In doing so, the Committee monitors these programs to ensure that Federal tax dollars are being spent wisely and efficiently and that America's Federal science and technology enterprise maintains its world preeminence.

Additionally, the Committee also tackles some of today's toughest issues and proposes ways in which research and development can solve some of our nation's most pressing problems.

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