
The disparate congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through multiple committees is preventing necessary legislation from getting passed by Congress, including a proposal to reorganize one of the department’s directorates to strengthen its cyber security operating mission, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Wednesday.In June the committee passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency Act (H.R. 5390) to restructure the current DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate to recognize that it is an…