House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Legislation and oversight relating to the United States Intelligence Community, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the defense intelligence agencies. It reports the annual intelligence authorization bill.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has 27 members, made up of 15 Republicans and 12 Democrats. Eric A. "Rick" Crawford chairs it. James A. Himes is the ranking member, which is the senior post held by the minority party. House committee assignments are made at the start of each 2-year Congress, so membership can change substantially after every general election. The membership below is generated from the roster this site maintains against clerk.house.gov and senate.gov.

Jurisdiction source: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

How business reaches this committee

This is a permanent select committee. Its members are named by the Speaker and the minority leader rather than assigned through the usual party committee process, and much of its work is classified. It handles authorisation and oversight of the intelligence agencies rather than a broad legislative subject area.

Subcommittees

The committee divides its work among 6 subcommittees:

  • Subcommittee on Central Intelligence Agency
  • Subcommittee on National Intelligence Enterprise
  • Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture
  • Subcommittee on National Security Agency and Cyber
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
  • Subcommittee on Open-Source Intelligence

Who serves on it

27 members sit on the committee: 15 Republicans and 12 Democrats. That gives the majority 15 of the 27 seats. Eric A. "Rick" Crawford is the chairman. James A. Himes is the ranking member. They hold 26 district seats and 1 delegate seat, and each seat has its own page on this site.

Following its work

Hearing notices, markup schedules, witness lists and published reports live on the committee’s own site, linked at the top of this page. The full member list below links to each member’s page here, with contact details and the seat they hold. For background on how seats and chairs are handed out, read How congressional committees work. For what happens to a bill after a committee reports it, read How a bill becomes law. To look up who represents a particular place, start at Browse all 435 districts.

Members

27 members. Generated from the roster this site holds, checked against the Clerk of the House and the Senate committee lists on September 26, 2026.

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