Intelligence Appropriations in The Senate
The U.S. Senate has no comparable subcommittee or panel on intelligence appropriations. S.Res. 445 of the 108th Congress called for the creation of a “Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Intelligence,” but those efforts stalled citing many of the same concerns over competing jurisdictions between the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the classified nature of the intelligence budget. The Senate is currently considering S. 372, the Fiscal Year 2007 Intelligence Authorization Act, which would permit the public release of overall budget amounts for the intelligence funding, but is silent on the creation of a stand-alone intelligence appropriations subcommittee.
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