
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is the Senate’s primary oversight committee with broad jurisdiction over government operations generally and the Department of Homeland Security in particular. Its primary responsibilities are to study the efficiency, economy, and effectiveness of all agencies and departments of the federal government; evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of government; and study the intergovernmental relationships between the U.S. and states and municipalities, and between the U.S. and international organizations of which the U.S. is a member.
Gary C. Peters
Democrat • MI
Rand Paul
Republican • KY
Margaret Wood Hassan
Democrat • NH
Ron Johnson
Republican • WI
Thomas Richard Carper
Democrat • DE
Richard Blumenthal
Democrat • CT
James Lankford
Republican • OK
Richard Lynn Scott
Republican • FL
Kyrsten Sinema
Independent • AZ
John Karl Fetterman
Democrat • PA
Willard Mitt Romney
Republican • UT
Andy Kim
Democrat • NJ
Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen
Democrat • NV
Joshua David Hawley
Republican • MO
Bernardo Moreno
Republican • OH
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff
Democrat • GA
Ruben Gallego
Democrat • AZ
Joni Ernst
Republican • IA
Elissa Slotkin
Democrat • MI
Roger Wayne Marshall
Republican • KS
Ashley Brooke Moody
Republican • FL
Laphonza Romanique Butler
Democrat • CA
Prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from constructing, acquiring, renovating, or operating any new processing site or detention center without providing a mechanism for public comments regarding such activity, entering into a signed, written agreement with appropriate State and local officials, and providing Congress with advance notice of such activity.
Referred To · February 23, 2026
Require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study of the impact of Federal reductions in force on State and local governments, and for other purposes.
Referred To · February 11, 2026
Designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 East Main Street in Mahaffey, Pennsylvania, as the "Robert Allen Bishop, Sr., Post Office Building".
Referred To · February 11, 2026