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
- Eric A. "Rick" CrawfordRArkansas 1Chairman
- James A. HimesDConnecticut 4Ranking Member
- Ami BeraDCalifornia 6
- André CarsonDIndiana 7
- Ann WagnerRMissouri 2
- Austin ScottRGeorgia 8
- Ben ClineRVirginia 6
- Brian K. FitzpatrickRPennsylvania 1
- Chrissy HoulahanDPennsylvania 6
- Claudia TenneyRNew York 24
- Dan CrenshawRTexas 2
- Darin LaHoodRIllinois 16
- Elise M. StefanikRNew York 21
- J. French HillRArkansas 2
- Jason CrowDColorado 6
- Jimmy GomezDCalifornia 34
- Joaquin CastroDTexas 20
- Josh GottheimerDNew Jersey 5
- Mike QuigleyDIllinois 5
- Pat FallonRTexas 4
- Raja KrishnamoorthiDIllinois 8
- Ronny JacksonRTexas 13
- Scott PerryRPennsylvania 10
- Stacey E. PlaskettDU.S. Virgin Islands delegate
- Steve CohenDTennessee 9
- Trent KellyRMississippi 1
- W. Gregory SteubeRFlorida 17
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.