United States Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery is one of the six subcommittees within the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

The Subcommittee is an ad hoc subcommittee, meaning "for this purpose." Ad Hoc committees are created for a single issue, and are disbanded after the issue is resolved. The Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery was formed after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.

Jurisdiction

The Subcommittee's jurisdiction as stated by the Senate Rules is:

• Recovery provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Act and the Long-Term Community Recovery and Mitigation Annex (ESF-14) of the National Response Plan;
• Coordination of the long-term recovery plans, activities, and mitigation provided by all federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and State and local governments;
• National disaster recovery strategy and national disaster housing strategy; and
• Coordination of data sharing regarding recovery issues between federal agencies, state and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector.

Members, 112th Congress

The subcommittee is chaired by Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas and the Ranking Minority Member is Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Majority	Minority
Mark Pryor, Arkansas, Chairman Daniel Akaka, Hawaii Mary Landrieu, Louisiana Jon Tester, Montana	Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ranking Member Scott Brown, Massachusetts Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Ex officio
Joe Lieberman, Connecticut	Susan Collins, Maine

External links

• Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Disaster Recovery Subcommittee page