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The bill creates a single Senate-confirmed Secret Service Director with a fixed 10-year term to increase continuity and accountability, but it raises risks of politicized appointments and reduces flexibility to remove or replace leadership when needed.
Secret Service personnel and federal law-enforcement: a single, fixed 10-year nonrenewable Director term provides leadership continuity across administrations, supporting long-term planning and more stable security programs.
Secret Service employees: establishing a single Senate-confirmed Director clarifies the leadership structure and improves organizational accountability.
Law-enforcement personnel and Secret Service operations: requiring Senate confirmation risks politicizing the appointment and can delay filling the Director role, undermining operational readiness during vacancies.
Taxpayers and oversight stakeholders: a single nonrenewable 10-year term reduces flexibility to remove or replace a Director who underperforms or conflicts with a new administration, potentially locking in ineffective leadership.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced November 6, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress November 6, 2025
Creates a fixed leadership structure for the United States Secret Service by requiring the agency to be headed by a Director appointed by the President with Senate confirmation who serves a single, nonrenewable 10-year term. The single-term rule applies beginning on the date the President next appoints a Director after this law takes effect.