{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=EC4C325E-713B-4D67-84FD-445E58561999", "Warner, Rubio Praise Passage of Intel Authorization Act", "2023-12-13", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "VA", "Mark R. Warner", "W000805", "www.warner.senate.gov", "warner", "https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) released the following statements on passage of the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2024, which was included the final National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The IAA authorizes funding, provides legal authorities, and enhances congressional oversight for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). After the House of Representatives approves the legislation, it will head to the president for his signature.\n\n\u201cThe Intelligence Authorization Act plays a crucial role in ensuring that America\u2019s intelligence agencies have the tools they need to protect the American people,\u201d said Chairman Warner. \u201cThis year\u2019s bill improves the IC\u2019s ability to track threats posed by our adversaries while promoting much-needed reforms to our nation\u2019s security classification system and expanding the Committee\u2019s efforts to reform the security clearance process in order to attract the best and brightest talent to the intelligence space. I am glad that Congress is coming together to pass this package that meets the needs of our Intelligence Community.\n\n\u201cOur adversaries, especially China, Russia, and Iran, are growing increasingly aggressive and collaborative in their efforts to weaken America and degrade the international rules-based system,\u201d said Vice Chairman Rubio. \u201cThe Intelligence Community (IC) has a critical role to play in identifying and mitigating these significant threats. This Intelligence Authorization Act strengthens our Committee\u2019s ongoing oversight of intelligence activities, makes important reforms to preserve our American values, and ensures that the IC effectively manages critical resources, authorities, and personnel to protect our national security.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe IAA for Fiscal Year 2024 authorizes funding for the IC and ensures that it has the resources, personnel, and authorities it needs to protect our country and inform decision makers, while ensuring continued robust congressional oversight. The bill\u2019s provisions focus on the following key areas:\n\nIncreases oversight of the national security threats posed by People\u2019s Republic of China, including its economic practices, foreign malign influence operations, military capabilities, and investments in, and attempts to dominate, the supply chains of artificial intelligence (AI), next-generation energy technologies, and biotechnology, among many others.\n\nEstablishes a new IC atrocities coordinator to increase collection, analysis, and intelligence support to government-wide efforts to hold China accountable for its egregious human rights abuses, including the Uyghur genocide.\n\nImproves the IC\u2019s procurement, adoption, and integration of emerging technologies by requiring the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to establish policies for the IC\u2019s acquisition, adoption, development, and use of AI, to create an intelligence innovation board, and to submit a plan for implementing an Intelligence Community Innovation Unit to integrate commercial emerging technologies.\n\nEnhances insight into the Maduro regime\u2019s imprisonment of United States persons in Venezuela.\n\nEnsures the IC has a first-class workforce by improving workforce mobility among IC agencies to meet national security needs; and increasing recruitment priorities for candidates with financial intelligence and technical expertise.\n\nEstablishes new requirements for reporting and investigating allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment with the CIA.\n\nIncreases transparency by strengthening Unidentified Aerial Phenomena funding limitations and reporting requirements.\n\nPromotes reform of the nation\u2019s security classification system to ensure accountability, increase transparency, and strengthen trust between the American people and their elected government.\n\nContinues to drive improvement in the security clearance process by requiring a policy framework to facilitate the mobility of the Intelligence Community workforce; renewing a report on the number of clearance holders in the government and industry; requiring updated timeliness standards the granting of clearances to reflect progress under the Trusted Workforce (TW) 2.0 initiative; annually measuring satisfaction among agencies, industry, and applicants with TW 2.0; and promoting shared IT among Intelligence Community elements to harmonize their clearance processes.\n\nProhibits the Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and Analysis from conducting custodial briefings in certain circumstances, collecting on journalists, and hiring personnel who collect information on domestic terrorism for a period of one year.\n\nRequires intelligence assessments of the strategic competition in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as assessments of certain cartels.\n\nEnsures continued support to the victims of anomalous health incidents (AHIs or \u201cHavana Syndrome\u201d) by improving the CIA\u2019s funding flexibility for payments to qualified victims; and requiring each IC element to issue regulations and procedures for implementing HAVANA Act of 2021 authorities.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=EC4C325E-713B-4D67-84FD-445E58561999"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5970980748534203, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}