A top House Republican is setting his sights on a sweeping review of the Department of Homeland Security to restructure and reauthorize the agency — a formidable task amid bitter border politics and longstanding committee turf wars.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said he plans to assemble a bipartisan group with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, plus some DHS personnel.
“We’re going to come up with what works for everybody to make the department more efficient,” he said in an interview on the sidelines of the homeland panel’s first hearing of the year.
The goal, Green said, ...