Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Oversees and makes continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States government, and submits legislation, including the annual intelligence authorization bill, and reports to the Senate on those activities.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has 21 members, made up of 11 Republicans, 9 Democrats and 1 other. Tom Cotton chairs it. Senate committee seats are held for the length of a senator term, so membership turns over more slowly than in the House. The membership below is generated from the roster this site maintains against clerk.house.gov and senate.gov.

Jurisdiction source: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

How business reaches this committee

This committee sits outside the standing committees listed in Senate Rule XXV. The Senate set it up separately and renews it each Congress. Its output is oversight, investigation and reports to the full Senate rather than the routine flow of referred bills.

Subcommittees

The committee has no subcommittees. Every hearing, markup and vote happens in full committee, which keeps the whole membership on the same set of questions.

Select and special committees tend to be small. Working in full committee means every member hears the same testimony and votes on the same record, with no intermediate stage between a hearing and a committee decision.

Who serves on it

21 senators sit on the committee: 11 Republicans, 9 Democrats, and 1 independent. That gives the majority 11 of the 21 seats. Tom Cotton is the chairman. Mark R. Warner is the vice chairman. They come from 18 states.

4 further members sit ex officio: Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, John Thune, Roger F. Wicker. They hold their seats by virtue of the leadership posts they occupy, not by assignment.

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 U.S. senators by state.

Members

21 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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