House Intelligence Panel Gets a New Chairman
Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Republican, will head the House Intelligence Committee, replacing Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), who has been nominated to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert announced.
Hastert said Hoekstra was a good choice to lead the panel as Congress moved to act on overhauling U.S. intelligence agencies following a critical report by the Sept. 11 commission, which investigated the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
Hoekstra, 50, who was born in the Netherlands and came to the United States as a boy, serves on the intelligence panel and represents a district in western Michigan.
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